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| My next stop this summer was to tackle something that has been on my "Rocking Chair List" for several years- snorkeling with Whale Sharks. i flew to Cancun, drove almost three hours north to Chiquila, then took the 9 Hermanos ferry to the island of Holbox (hol-bosh). |
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| Below is the boat I took on my first whale shark excursion. |
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| On the way out we saw two huge schools of baby manta rays. |
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| On several days we saw dolphins-one day we captured this. |
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| Below is a huge manta ray. On our last trip out we saw many of them and they stuck around and fed. |
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| So we jumped in the water and were able to snorkel with them. |
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| But this is why we really came-to see the largest shark in the world-coming right towards us! |
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| Below is a manta jumping out of the water-it looked closer than my camera tells. |
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| Here is me in my glory. We saw about 100 whale sharks this first day. They were everywhere! Too excited to be scared. |
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| In this one me and Lisa had sharks in all four directions. |
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| They came right up to the boat while feeding. |
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| These open gills were an impressive sight. |
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| Finally I get to swim alongside them. |
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| It takes two pics to see how large |
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| Below is what I saw every time i turned around. |
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| Good thing no teeth |
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| Beautiful patterns |
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| We saw flamingos at the end of each day on the boat trip home. I took a golf cart to the end of the island on day and photographed them up close. |
