Durr Na Durrr Na dur na durna... (Jaws)

We did our last dives today and finished on a high. We saw many turtles, white tip reef sharks and Large Napoleon Wrasse.

On our very last dive Chris was inbetween the group with me busy photographing behind. He was looking for small things in crevices when he looked up to see a grey shark twice the size of the white tip reef sharks. It was swimming parallel to him when it turned and headed straight for him. Now divers bubbles can't be heard clearly but I'm sure you know what he was probably saying. He turned and swam away as fast as possible.

I looked up to find a very excitable Chris in front of me placing his hand on his head to make a shark sign. I think adrenalin was pumping!

Now the tables were turned. I was catching the group up at the end of the dive when a large fish appeared at the end of my fins. I though ah what lovely colours and then I realised it was a Trigger fish - not the regular yellow and blue ones but a green and pink one. They are about 2ft big and have razor sharp teeth. Very beautiful to look at. They eat corals. But when they are breeding they get very territorial and can attack divers. If you swim above their nest area. This Trigger did not like me one bit. Luckily I used my fins to keep him at bay and I also had my Large and heavy Underwatercamera Casing ready to hit him. I kept eye contact with him and had to turn 360 with him and kick my fins at him. I think he would have come at me if I had turned my back. You have to swim down and away to leave their territory - easy to say when its not you!

I looked around to find Chris laughing at me! I certainly had adrenalin pumping and did poop myself! On surfacing Chris said when I was getting close to the group he made sure he was low to the corals and furthest from me so that he wouldn't be next!!

Ah very funny indeed.
So now we move onto the jungle in the morning. Hopefully we won't experience too many nastys there.

Lots of Love
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Ah major last PS
On the boat to Sipadan we saw a small Manta Ray jump out of the water and flip over . It did this 3 times. Someone said they do this when they give birth? Not so sure if that is true or not but it certainly was a wonderful sight to see.