Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Shark Encounter

Last weekend for my mom's birthday my family and I went to the shark cage encounters in Haleiwa. I wasn't to frightened at first but my mom and sister definently were. After traveling about 2 miles out, over 20 ft swells rolingin we finally got to the spot where the sharks were. When we arrived the captain of the boat poured some blood out of a bucket into the water and within minutes we spotted a shark at the surface. Since it was about 7 in the morning it was pretty cold as we got into the cage which was in the water by that point. My sister was the first one in the cage and I could hear her screaming inside of her snorkel. As the rest of my family slowly got into the cage I was able to seeeveryone's reaction towards the sharks. My dad and I were fine but my mom and sister were freaked out. As I was in the cage I was suprised to find that sharks are actually beautiful animals. They are very graceful and when you see them face to face they dont seem to be very mean but due to their size they are definently kindah
scary. I have a couple pictures if you would like to see them.

1 comment:

Colton said...

Sounds like a scream. I thought it was interesting that you noticed that they are actually beautiful animals. Contradicts what most people think about sharks huh? This to me means that we judge a lto of things, especially things we don't know very well. Can you relate this general concept to anything? (i can)