DAY FOURTEEN: Swimming with sharks

DAY FOURTEEN: Swimming with sharks

Well it was more like paddling than swimming. We had managed to mooch a lift to Nelson Bay for a few days with my uncle while he was working. This was great since we were three hours north of Wollongong which gave us a whole new area to explore. We had been recommended to go sand boarding, dolphin watching, shark paddling and going to Hunter Valley. We agreed to try to do a lot of them only we wasn't going to do them all because we could always go again.
Today we went to Nelson bay to book ourselves onto the sand boarding trip for tomorrow. There were lots to choose from but we decided to go with safari tours purely because their tour bus was a Hummer H1. From here we drove to Port Stephens to go to the Shark and Ray feeding centre, for the pair of us it was about $90 and we could go into the pool with them. At first I thought this was great, we got changed and headed to the first pool, my initial excitement dwindled quite quickly, even though they were only small I had still seen Jaws and deep blue sea. After a short time of sitting on the step I waded in, There were lots of them all swarming around you presuming that I had food or that I was food, my apprehension quickly left me once I realised they were only curious and the fact they wasn't eating the small children who had jumped in at the same time as me was reassuring. Vicki on the other hand wasn't to keen on the whole experience, she went into the water and took some photos but was much happier feeding them from the side.

Dave making new friends

Eagle ray

Port Jackson shark

Tawny nurse shark