Okay, so my title is definitely too dramatic. Whale Sharks are non-carnivors, therefore the likelihood of it actually swallowing me whole is very minute. But here’s my story.
We landed in Cebu at 10.00am after flying in from Vietnam, and made our way down to Moalboal on a 4hr bus ride. Safe to say we were extremely tired by the time we arrived but we went to meet Lou and Libs for dinner as we hadn’t seen them in so long!!
The next day we were supposed to all go to a waterfall but T and I woke up feeling horrendous and ended up sleeping until midday. We drove down to Oslob that afternoon and somehow managed to squeeze all 4 of us, plus all of our luggage (which is a ridiculous amount of luggage i’ll admit) into this one bloody car! We were completely squashed and I had a dead leg for a whole hour.
Yesterday we swam with whale sharks
and it was the most incredible experience of my life. The whale sharks are humongous, but you somehow don’t feel alarmed by them. I will say there was a slight moment where I doubted my existence when I had accidentally strayed from the boat and turned around to see the motherTRucker right behind me, opening up his mouth to inhale a mouthful of fish. I saw right down the back of his throat I was that close. I screamed through my snorkel and jumped to one side trying to grab hold of any boat possible. Of course, being who I am, I actually grabbed hold of a girls’ head instead but she was very nice about it and pulled me up to the boat. In the moment I was 100% expecting to be dunked by her.
There was more than just one moment in the 30 minutes of swimming with the whale sharks that I thought we might be gonners. T was getting a video of me swimming with them, and I turn round and see one right behind his head. He then screamed through his snorkel and swam in the opposite direction. Safe to say we had an exhilirating morning.
That night we met Micha and Eleanor (2 girls we met in Bowen doing our farm work) for dinner and had a catch up with them. Tomorrow were heading over to Siquijor Island for 3 nights. We were originally getting like 2 ferries and 2 busses to get there but luckily Lou was chatting to a local and found out there’s now a direct route – Happy Days!
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