Snorkeling story

After the tour we all had another few days in Sydney and on one of these we went down to La Perouse on Botany Bay for a swim with a few of the lads.

Everything was going fine until.....

Snorkeling with Allan, we spotted a bait-ball just below the surface so went over to investigate...

There were hundreds of small fish being very friendly and following us about. Terns and cormorants above the water had also found the shoal and were preparing to attack.

It seems that they were hanging out with Allan and myself for protection.

Suddenly another shoal of fish arrived and started to circle us. Bigger ones these between a half a metre and a metre in length.

And following them, an even bigger fish! Circling just out of sight in the murky water, this thing was huge! It was at about this time that we made the decision to get back to the beach. Quickly.

In hindsight it was probably not too dodgy. Allan saw some yellow on a large sickle-shaped tail-fin so it was maybe some sort of tuna type thing or a big kingfish rather than a hungry shark out for our blood.