Just to prove we were there with the ECOCEAN guys here's their van in the morning with one of the local emus.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Ningaloo Reef, Exmouth, Western Australia
If you can swim you should go and see whale sharks. They may not always be around (in day time they spend most of their time at depth) but it's worth it when they are.
We spent a week at the end of April as Earthwatch volunteers http://www.earthwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=cdKLIPNpEoG&b=1339475&ct=3196945 for Brad Norman and crew researching the whale sharks. Check out the ECOCEAN website for more details. They're using NASA developed software for star recognition to 'fingerprint' the sharks so they know where they've been and how often they've been sighted. http://www.ecocean.org/
There are so few of these beautiful sharks left now and its absolutely tragic. They are listed on CITES but the killing continues. I'd hate to see them become extinct they've been around on the planet considerably longer than we have and at the moment they're rapidly heading for the list of species man has managed to wipe out.
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