Vamizi Island’s flagship reef - 01:37 pm

06 Nov 2009

As a newly appointed member of the Earth-Touch marine team, I have had to fast track my over all confidence in the water. I am happy to report that I have my buoyancy perfected and am descending to depths of around 30 meters with no trouble at all. This new found confidence is brilliant but now that I am heading fearlessly, I say that with only a slight dose of sarcasm, into the deeper waters I really have to get used to seeing bigger fish. By bigger fish I mean Potato bass the size of a full grown man, grey reef sharks, giant King Fish, hundreds of bump head snappers spilling over ledges like rust coloured waterfalls, the sort of animals I spent this entire morning swimming around with on Vamizi Islands flagship reef ‘Neptunes’.

The boat ride was about an hour long but for 20 minutes of it we were escorted along by a pod of bottlenose dolphins.

What I love about dolphins is that they seem as curious about us as we are about them. They swim at the bow of the boat and tilt their bodies to look up at us as we tilt our bodies over the edge of the boat to look down at them. It is quite amazing to see your own behaviour mirrored back at you by an animal so physically different, but so characteristically similar.

We kitted up and descended onto one of the most dynamic reefs I have ever seen. I am not sure how to do it justice with just words, but I can guarantee that that was not our last dive there. Grant will be bringing you footage from this reef and I am pretty sure that the images will speak more eloquently for themselves.
Leah B

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