SHARKS! APEX PREDATORS IN THE BAHAMAS
Immersion in current affairs these days brings inevitable acquaintance with sharks of various kinds, and all best avoided. Let’s have a look the real thing, the apex marine predators that in the Bahamas are all around you once you leave the safety of the shore. I haven’t featured them for ages, and it’s always a pleasure – a slight thrill, even.
I don’t do scuba, indeed my swimming would easily be outclassed by a competent four-year old. But I see these creatures when I’m out fishing; or as they hang in the breaking waves off the Delphi beach, watching intently for a meal.
We watch them (and stingrays) from the balcony as they lazily make their way round the margins of the wide bay, from little ‘uns to (recently) a huge bull shark. We watch as, when someone is in the water, they change course slightly to pass by them. So far, anyway…
The one that got away… (a sad sight)
I once took a rather primitive underwater camera with me while snorkelling in Fowl Cays National Park. This was several years ago, when I believed a cheap 2mb camera might turn me into one of the Blue Planet team. I was wrong. The shark I saw, apparently some 20 miles away (when I examined the image) – well, that’s its tail, top left…
Just to look at these images is to understand that when you are in the sea, you are in the sharks’ environment. They are the masters of it. They have their rules, and they are not much interested in you… unless you break them. Or so the theory goes.
This fine shark below exemplifies the power and the menace of the shark. A creature to be admired, but also to be respected.
All fantastic photos: Melinda Riger / Grand Bahama Scuba
Dear RH
wow, great pictures!
Wishing you happy holidays
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you – (after the event) I hope you both – all 4 – have had happy hols too… RH
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Thanks, dear RH, we had a cosy Easter time.
Wishing you all the best
The Fab Four of Cley
By the way, we wonder why the Harbour is Rolling.
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Because it is a wide bay inside a reef. The waves roll in onto a mile- long white sand beach. Someone a hundred years ago must have come up with the romantic name, which I have pinched! It’s where our place there is situated… luckily!!!!
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Thank you! GREAT
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