Yesterday, while walking on the promenade, we noticed a lazy flipper sticking up out of the water, which at first thought belonged to a diver, and then realised there was a dorsal fin attached to it, far too far away from the flipper to be human!  Everyone on the promenade was watching, – at first no one knew what it was – it is a whale, no, too small, and what about those dorsal fins?  The local fishermen informed us that it was shark – great white nogal!  We were duly impressed, the thing was massive.  When I got home I googled ‘sharks’, and found that rounded dorsal fin was far more likely to be a whal shark than a great white.  It was so exciting, we followed the shark for about a kilometre as it cruised the back line, a monumental beast.  Whale sharks are totally harmless, gentle creatures that live on plankton stuff, not surfers!

The day before I saw a whale and her baby, jumping right out of the sea in front of my apartment – thee is always something exciting to watch in our ocean.