Byron Bay, New South Wales

Together we decided to take a trip to Byron Bay, a small funky town 90 minutes away. I love this place, neat, quite, hippie-ish with a beautiful beach and a great for a small surf and for sure – diving!

The main reason I came here was to dive with grey nurse sharks or also called Sand tiger shark. This shark looks so scary , the teeth are kind of growing out his mouth !
Unfortunately he is listed as endangered under Queensland's Nature Conversation. I cant wait to see him. For sure we were running late and the diving shop was just waiting for Zibi ( polish guy ) and me. Chucked in the truck we drove to the beach were we had to pull the boat in the water and jumped through big waves with a loud honk – because of the surfers – in direction Julian Rock. A small rock which is a small way of the beach and in winter its crowded with Grey nurses. Because it is spring there are moving away to cooler waters so we are praying to see some. Stupid me, i didn’t take my underwater housing from Sydney with me so I told zibi to take some good shots of the sharks..



You wont believe what happened.. After 30 minutes of a good dive we saw tons of Porcupine fish, 2 wobbegong sharks and a few other things as suddenly a huge swarm of small yellow fish swam towards me, as I realised that they are surrounding a huge grey nurse shark!!
He swam right under me just 1 meter away! Jippppiiiii!!





I looked at Zibi and saw that he was doing something with his camera so I was sure that he saw the shark next to him.. everybody went out of air except the dive master and me , so we sent them up and had a great 60 minute dive alone where I saw another 2 m long ray!
On the boat I was talking exciting about the dive and the shark as I realised that Zibi didn’t see the shark – he was filming the small fishes around the shark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I couldn’t believe this! How can you miss a nearly 3 m shark right next to you???
Well in the video he admit “ You were damn right, there is a bloody shark in there!”
How funny.
Can you at least see him?!

The rest of the 2 days we spent in the crystal blue water, surfing the small waves and bathing in the sun..