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How I missed whale shark

10. 10. 2009
Last time I finished by words, I wish to see shark, do you remember, don´t you? But we must start from the beginning. After time I went again for diving. We went today to Ras Mohammed again. We decided that we will make first dive - Jackfish Alley and second dive - Shark reef/Yolanda. It was great program for this day and we were looking forward our dives. Finaly everything was changed.

This day I had on the boat except my friends also a book. I decided to finish it today. I knew how is the program so I was reading my book, sometimes my friends or crew asked me about some things and I didn´t see that program was changed. First dive will be Shark reef/Yolanda. In a minute when divers started dressed up I just asked Ezzat whats going on and he said that we will jump for the first dive on Shark reef, dress up to be ready. I don´t like to get on my wet suit fast, so I decided to not jump for the first dive. Hanka was surpriced that I will not jump on this dive site, the best one in Sharm El Sheikh but once I said no and I kept my word. And it was a big mistake!

Everybody jump into the blue and on the boat finaly came quite time. I again came back to my book but not for a long time. Crew was shouting: Dolphines, dolphines! and realy we saw dolphines on the surface, so I watched them for a while. I was back with my book and then Russians shouted: Tcherepacha, tcherepacha! (turtle). One came to the surface for the air. I looked at it and than finaly I finished my book. After that also our divers guided by Hanka were back. They were talking so much. Hanka was the last one and she said: You made mistake, big mistake, it was there and I was sure what I missed. She ment whale shark. All the summer I waited for this chance and I lost it but only for this summer in Sharm. Anyway I was happy with the others. And I told them that we saw dolphines and turtle, they didn´t. But whale shark is whale shark, isn´t it?

From Shark reef/Yolanda we went finaly to Ras Za´atar where we saw nice corals and tree turtles, father, mother and junior. It was nice all family. Turtle male was eating soft coral and it looks like it is ver tasty for him. In a minute he got shock and he lost himself, hit the coral and then left to deep blue water. Junior, it was maybe girl, because she wait for all with camera or videocamera and we made nice pictures. And turtle female? She was perfect. We could make pictures and video and she was so nice. I think that in the end it was very nice day, isn´t it?
And whale shark? I hope that I will see it next summer :-)

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