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- WHO is going (adults, kids);
- WHAT you want to see & do;
- WHERE you want to go;
- WHEN you want to go;
- WHY you want to do this trip (e.g. relaxation, adventure, health - mental/physical);
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nsiderations. I will do all the hard work and research the best options for you to put together a custom made itinerary that will give you the most memorable experiences. The operators and businesses I choose to work with are the ones I personally believe have the best morals, ethics and product/service so that I know you are being well looked after. I look forward to hearing from you to make your time a special one!

29/02/2024

Chinese New Year done very traditionally on Christmas Island - 22 members of the Christmas Island Kung Fu Association welcomed in the new year with a lion dance performance on CNY Eve followed by midnight drumming for a couple of hours. Then for 2.5 big long days the club performed at temples, residential homes & businesses all across the island. There were lettuces, mandarins, lollies, snacks, red packets, laughter, some stress with challenging premises to navigate around & lots of sweat! So proud to see each of the kids step up & do their best when it comes to show time. Being a lion is not easy - it's hot, heavy & so tiring on all your muscles - but rewarding to see the joy on people's faces as the lion performs around them. Love the dedication the team has to keep some old traditions alive ❤️

Welcome year of the Dragon 🐉🧧🎆🧨 May it be a safe, healthy & prosperous for all 🫶🏼

**Sound on for full effect of the video 😊🦁

03/02/2024

Animal migrations - never fully understand how they all know when to move together & go to the same location...but it is so jaw-dropping to see it in real life - not just on a documentary!

Well worth the late night hike in, camping on coral rubble, getting mauled by mozzies, other insects & cicadas smashing my face, to wake up at sunrise & see all these ladies getting ready to release their eggs simultaneously with the return of the next generation of baby red crabs 🦀 🦀 🦀

Please let me know in the comments which pic you like most capturing the migration - numbering from 1 (adult next to white rock with babies on it) to 7.

📸 using Samgung A53

31/12/2023

Finally able to tick the Cocos Keeling Atoll walk off my list of things to do! Took almost 11hrs (lots of stops to look at animals, drink water, eat snacks & rest the feet) to walk the 21km from West Island to Home Island 🏝 🇨🇨

South Island was definitely the longest & hardest hurdle. Mentally, it was deflating to think you could see the next Island, only to find it was still South Island... for like 4 hours! Physically, the uneven rocks & water crossings with current & swell pushing you where you didn't want to be was tiring. But the rest of the walk was scenic, and animals encountered along the way cute.

The walk definitely reminded me, the journey is equally as important as the destination. I think we often get hyper-focused on the end goal - cover this distance in this amount of time; meet the ferry at this time; reach this point by this tide... but at the end of the day, whatever happened, we dealt with. The time didn't matter. We finished. And we enjoyed the steps along the way.

No records broken. Missed all the deadlines. But we made memories we can look back on, forever.

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26/12/2023

Another Christmas on Christmas Island 🎄 🇨🇽 🏝 done & dusted! Some traditions that happen every festive season in the IOT:
✔️build your own Christmas tree (this year was drift wood inspired) 🌴
✔️es**rt Santa with Volunteer Firies & the Rock Riders on the Santa lolly run 🎅
✔️watch the Round-a-bout Christmas tree get lit up 🎄
✔️witness the CI red crabs begin their migration to create the next generation 🦀
✔️Christmas dive following a sunrise brekkie 🌅 🪸🐠
✔️eat copious amounts of good food with the few good people I call my friends - thank you everyone for your company. Very much appreciate spending Christmas with you all 🙏🏼💙

21/09/2023

Sometimes the best things in life are the unplanned moments you decide not to let slip by - unreal sunrise swim with Mum, calf & es**rt Southern Right Whales! 4m depth, ~50m off shore, 20degs C water temp - worth every bit of freezing! 🥶🧊🐋

17/09/2023

I'm not the best kiter in the world - I just love the feeling of being on the water cruising on my board. But to nail a trick defo gives me an additional buzz. And to get air time literally is bliss. It's peaceful up there. Cocos is probably my favourite place to try jumps & tricks I wouldn't try else where because of the shallow clear flat water it's ideal to practice in. Most of the time I nail my tricks when no one is watching. In this instance, I manage to be captured in flight. Thanks 💙🇨🇨🏝

03/09/2023

Finally! Been trying to accomplish this mission since 2016 on my first visit to Christmas Island after spending a month volunteering for Zephyr Tours at Cocos Keeling🏝

After hearing of a first attempt from a beach on CI a couple of years back by Levi Fowler I knew the safest way would be a water launch with boat support - to get away from wind shadows & turbulence created by cliff faces on the island. It took A LOT of convincing to finally find a boat & skipper adventurous enough to take on this challenge, and yesterday, I became the first woman to kite CI and as far as I know, the 2nd person to ever do so. Thanks to for also wanting to execute this dream - he became the 3rd person to ever kite at CI. I can't thank the boat crew & enough for their patience and keeping us all safe out there. We were miles out from the island and kiting in waters of 1300m depth! Pretty sick when you think about it! Still frothing today 😎

The Kiteboarder Magazine Christmas Island Tourism North Kiteboarding Naish Kiteboarding Mystic

27/07/2023

My name is Karlina & it's been over a year since my last kite. Yes, I'm a Kite Addict! Yew! 🤙🏻
Time on Cocos Keeling was cut short with 6 nights spent on a yacht during the crossing from Christmas Island to Direction Island plus hang out time...so I had to make the most of my 5 days of kite time. I went hard. Progressed with some skills because of the perfect flat water to practice in, blistered toes from being wet & in bindings for hours, exhausted my abs to the point going from sitting to lying position & vice versa was excruciating & worked out every other muscle that becomes engaged with each jump & movement on the water. The kite pain was real & I've missed it! Thank you Cocos for putting the wind on most days & feeding my addiction I can't feed on Christmas Island 💙🇨🇨🏝

22/07/2023

The universe gifted me with the amazing opportunity recently to sail from Christmas Island to Cocos Keeling (Direction Island to be exact). It took 3 days & 6 hours to cross the ~550nm with mostly following seas. The Beneteau First 44.7ft sailing yacht '2K' (fortuitous given my family nickname of K.K.) was steady as she comes and the owner/Captain Kjell, First Mate Desiré & fellow stowaway Raymond were cool as cucumbers in every situation - perfect people to do my first sailing ocean crossing with 🇨🇽⛵️🏝🇨🇨💙

07/07/2023

Just a little bit stoked...finally! First one landed all by myself! 🎣🐟💙🙏🏼

23/03/2023

First experience of Ramadan - day 1. Gifted with a stunning sunrise after a 4.30am big breakfast & several glasses of water. Worked on the wharf, which was honestly a struggle when fasting with no food or drinks, including water, allowed between sunrise & sunset. The hardest part of the day for me was between 10am and 1pm. But after that it became easier. Broke the fast at sunset with traditional dates & lots of water, followed by admiring the crescent moon and a night snorkel. The snorkel was mind blowing with an intense amount of phosphorescence that lit up with every fin kick, wiggle of a finger or as they touched my mask - I couldn't see for all the sea sparkles that kept flashing in front of my face!

Ramadan is a great experience in mind set, intention, dedication, gratitude & how to be positive during uncomfortable moments. I was told feeling hangry would defeat the purpose of Ramadan so I put the hanger aside and made it through the whole day. Bring on the next 30 days! 😊💪🏽🇨🇽

28/01/2023

My birthday happens to fall on Australia Day 🇦🇺

For the non-Aussies who don't know, this day is celebrated by many Australians as a happy (aka very drunk!) occasion but for others, it is a sad day because of the atrocities that happened to their people. I don't want this post to bring up any debates, but I wanted to share something I always reflect on about myself on my birthday, and I think the reflection can also be applied to reflecting on my country and why I like celebrating Australia Day:

Every single thing that I have experienced in my life until this moment - the good, bad & the very ugly - have all contributed to the overall person I am today, so none of it should be forgotten, even the bad bits. It is what I learn from those bad bits of my past, in the present moment of today, to make my future brighter & better that is important. The person I am today is in no way perfect, but I am still grateful of what I have achieved so far, and look forward to what I can change and achieve in the year/s ahead. I am very grateful to be an Australian today, but we have a disgraceful history that we cannot forget, but can learn from. Each Australian can choose to make our country's future even better than our past. I celebrate Australia Day for this purpose - to remember where we come from & where we are going - as I celebrate my birth day.

24/01/2023

This is why waking up at 5am is worth it 😍

I have got an insane body clock that no matter when I fall asleep, or how little sleep I have had, I nearly always wake up instantly at 5am. It can be annoying when I actually need the sleep but the best thing is I do get to see sunrises like this, when most of the world is still sleeping in a darkened room. Handy trait to have for a sunchaser like me.

Which do you prefer- sunrises or sunsets? And why?

21/01/2023

Gong Hei Fat Choy / Gong Xi Fa Cai 🧨🈲️🐇

05/01/2023

12 Dec 2022 is when the first baby red crabs were spotted emerging from the ocean at Greta Beach. Next day they were emerging from the Cove in Kampong and they kept arriving in bigger red waves everyday until Christmas Day & beyond. Only now in the new year has the red flow subsided but you can still find babies, much more spaced or now, scurrying through the under growth of leaves, rocks & logs. It's been such a pleasure to see the changes in growth from megalopae (with their bulgy blue eyes!) to that first land crab appearance (with their fragile red spider legs & super cute nippers) after the final moult. I hope you have enjoyed seeing the journey with me.

Sadly, there are many baby crab casualties who never make it, drying up before reaching the safety of the jungle - many who couldn't navigate past the concrete jungle of human settlement. I do my best to release the ones who get lost in our houses back to the outdoors & wish them a good life ahead - as I wish a good life to all of you reading this - may you have the very best 2023 you can ❤️💙

Australian Geographic Society National Geographic Adventure National Geographic Nat Geo Wild

03/01/2023

Sorry for the delay in posting crab migration updates but with the holidays, things just got hectic! These pics are from 21-24 Dec. Each day we thought "this is the biggest return day" but the next day would come and there would be another influx of babies, and then more the next day! It's been a busy time leading up to Christmas Day. The babies have had a big impact on those living in the Kampong area of CI. Would you be able to handle the masses of crabs at your front steps like in these pictures??

02/01/2023

I'm definitely a sun chaser. I try to see sunrise & sunset every day. Some people say I'm obsessed - that may be true, but when Nature gives me colours like this, how can I not keep coming back for more?

30/12/2022

Another land crab species on the island who deserves some air time - the Robber Crab. They were busy spawning this week and there are still plenty of ladies around the traps carrying eggs. They move so much more precariously than the red crabs and are not very well designed for swimming, but still need to make that perilous journey from jungle, down cliff faces to reach the ocean edge to release their eggs into the water. It's a fine line between close enough and that's too close and now the waves will drag you out to sea... but these dedicated mummas will do whatever it takes to give their eggs the best chance in life! 💙🇨🇽🏝

25/12/2022

Always wanted to have Christmas Day on Christmas Island but have always been away working or with family on the east coast. Finally got the most Christmasy Christmas I could get - Merry Christmas from a place where it's Christmas everyday! 🎅🤶🎄❤️🇨🇽🏝💙

20/12/2022

Caution ⚠️
Baby red crabs are now crossing from the shoreside, through grass/vegetation, across roads, past buildings & other obstacles (like my feet). Great way to spend sunrise this morning - admiring these delicate creatures and their journey so far...

To reduce the risk of them being run over by vehicle traffic, National Park Rangers take to leaf blowing the babies out of the way.

Please let me know what images you like seeing most - close ups of individual crabs VS landscapes to show the extent of their spread? Put the number/s of the pics you like best in the comments below. Also let me know if there is a particular shot you'd like to see & I'll endeavour to get it for you

19/12/2022

Sorry, not sorry, for continuing to post pic after pic after pic after pic after pic of these adorable critters!! Soooo many more crabs still yet to come on to the island. Loving every minute of admiring their beauty, strength & tenacity - I need to take a leaf out of their book 🦀❤️🦀

17/12/2022

The ladies are back out in force, getting ready to drop their eggs into the ocean for round 2 of spawning action. Reality check to compare the size of a red crab egg with that of the baby red crabs that were dropped 4 weeks ago! In that time they have swum around the ocean, gotten swirled around in the swell, surfed in to shore and now they are almost developed enough to make their way into the jungle for the first time. One last moult and they will be on their merry way. Nature is wonderful!

16/12/2022

The megalops (larval stage of baby red crabs that still have a tail and breath with gills) are biding their time until they are ready for their last moult when they become teeny weeny land crabs with perfect little legs formed. You can see a couple of distinct differences between the two stages in some of these pics.

I'm still amazed every day at how instinctive these little animals are to emerge with super horrendous swell to contend with. They might look like fragile shiny jewels but they are also strong & resilient at the same time!

14/12/2022

And I was right... I'll never get bored of this! I still can't fathom how, despite the swelly seas, these teeny tiny creatures made it back to this island so instinctively & intact! 😍

They glisten like precious jewels as they first emerge from the sea - varying shades of red, orange, opaque & almost transparent. They scurry frantically, with their newly formed land legs, over each other and the rocks, coral and algae at such speed & determination to succeed in their journey inland. Such mighty little animals our red crabs!

I'm infatuated with their cute little eyeballs and little limbs. They make make heart burst! 🦀🦀🦀🇨🇽🏝💙❤

13/12/2022

Finally! Something I've always wanted to see for myself but never in the right place at the right time! Thank you Mother Nature for allowing me to share in this moment which I don't think I'll ever get bored of. Incredible to see these tiny baby red crabs emerge from the sea onto the land for the first time. So driven by instinct to make their way towards the jungle of Christmas Island, no matter what obstacles stand in their way (giant me included).

Almost a month ago they were released as teeny eggs into the ocean...where they have been all this time, nobody knows! But here they are now - go little red crabs, go! 😍🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀❤️🏝🇨🇽

Ps. still can't get over the wonders of nature!

05/12/2022

This is Hugh's Dale (No. 2 Dale) - one of seven watercourses that make up what is known as The Dales - one of two Ramsar sites located on Christmas Island.

A Ramsar site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention - also known as "The Convention on Wetlands". The Ramsar Convention is an intergovernmental environmental treaty established in 1971 by UNESCO. It provides for national action and international cooperation regarding the conservation of wetlands, and wise sustainable use of their resources.

I only learnt yesterday that another Ramsar site in Queensland (there are only 5 listed in QLD) is currently under risk of development - something I did not know was possible once protected under the Ramsar Convention (please excuse my naivety)!

There are plans to construct 3,600 dwellings in the Toondah Harbour Priority Development Area (PDA) in Cleveland and Moreton Bay (Brisbane, Queensland).

There are 17.9 ha of existing land and 49.5 ha of marine and tidal environments in the area which the State Government and Redland City Council want developed.

Because the proposed Toondah Harbour project would impact on various matters of national environmental significance (MNES), the Federal Government decided in 2018 that this project would be assessed by way of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to be prepared by Walker Group.

On 12 October 2022 Walker Group published a Draft Environment Impact Statement (EIS) for public consultation.
The consultation period is 40 business days, making today - 6th Dec 2022 - the deadline for making submissions.

If you feel as compelled as I do about this topic, electronic submissions about the draft EIS can be emailed to Walker Group at: [email protected]

The more submissions the better - I can send you my points if you'd like to make a last minute submission - PM me!

More information on the draft EIS can be found at: https://redlands2030.net/unboxing-the-toondah-harbour-draft-eis/

30/11/2022

Seems like a second wave of red crab migration & spawning is coming as more and more crabs come to the sea for a quick dip....watch this space!

20/11/2022

The official crab dance 🦀 💃

This is how a female red crab releases its eggs into the ocean - at great risk to herself as she can't really swim or breath underwater welll for long periods of time... so she can drown! Always amazed at how animals just know what to do in terms of great migrations. No one tells them how far they have to travel or where exactly they are going - but they just know! No one tells them how to do this dance - they just do! And no one tells the baby crabs where to come back to and what they do next - but they will (hopefully) find Christmas Island after swirling around the sea for several weeks and emerge from the salt water to journey for their first time on land to find their jungle home. Just incredible, given I can't find my way to a destination if I havent been there before!

It is averaged each female crab can create 100,000 eggs - good luck little buddies. Hope to see you back here soon ♥️ 🦀 🇨🇽🏝

19/11/2022

After spending the past couple of weeks in their love burrows, the female red crabs finally emerged this week to spawn. Parks & Shire staff worked together to manage traffic alongside volunteers from Island Care & generally kind hearted citizens coming to assist with raking to minimise the carnage on the roads from vehicles. It was an extra tough time for the females this year as a bumper swell rolled in booming along the coast creating some extreme conditions for releasing eggs into the ocean when you're a land crab & at risk of drowning! These mumma crabs deserve an award for some of the brave ocean dips they had to take to ensure their eggs could make it out to sea 🦀

Females wait for the best tide to release their eggs enmass - meaning a 4am wake up the other day. There was a surprising number of people out and about to see this natural phenomenon during the hours before dawn, with not the most comfortable viewing weather given the rough seas and slight drizzle. Was worth it - I'm always amazed at how instinctive & dedicated wildlife can be when it comes to reproducing. Just mind blowing!

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Chinese New Year done very traditionally on Christmas Island - 22 members of the Christmas Island Kung Fu Association welcomed in the new year with a lion dance performance on CNY Eve followed by midnight drumming for a couple of hours. Then for 2.5 big long days the club performed at temples, residential homes & businesses all across the island. There were lettuces, mandarins, lollies, snacks, red packets, laughter, some stress with challenging premises to navigate around & lots of sweat! So proud to see each of the kids step up & do their best when it comes to show time. Being a lion is not easy - it's hot, heavy & so tiring on all your muscles - but rewarding to see the joy on people's faces as the lion performs around them. Love the dedication the team has to keep some old traditions alive ❤️ Welcome year of the Dragon 🐉🧧🎆🧨 May it be a safe, healthy & prosperous for all 🫶🏼 **Sound on for full effect of the video 😊🦁 #chinesenewyear #chinesenewyear2024 #christmasisland #traditions

First woman to kitesurf at Christmas Island 🇨🇽🏝😎

Gong Hei Fat Choy / Gong Xi Fa Cai 🧨🈲️🐇 #chinesenewyear #yearoftherabbit2023 #yearoftherabbit #christmasisland #mynewislandhome

Christmas Island red crab migration is in full swing with the babies currently returning from the sea and inundating the island on their journey into the jungle. With many people out and about to see this natural phenomenon, I wanted people to know how to protect the very thing they are coming to admire - and not squash them! #christmasislandredcrabs #redcrabmigration #nature #migration National Geographic TV National Geographic Adventure National Geographic Australian Geographic Society

The official crab dance 🦀 💃 This is how a female red crab releases its eggs into the ocean - at great risk to herself as she can't really swim or breath underwater welll for long periods of time... so she can drown! Always amazed at how animals just know what to do in terms of great migrations. No one tells them how far they have to travel or where exactly they are going - but they just know! No one tells them how to do this dance - they just do! And no one tells the baby crabs where to come back to and what they do next - but they will (hopefully) find Christmas Island after swirling around the sea for several weeks and emerge from the salt water to journey for their first time on land to find their jungle home. Just incredible, given I can't find my way to a destination if I havent been there before! It is averaged each female crab can create 100,000 eggs - good luck little buddies. Hope to see you back here soon ♥️ 🦀 🇨🇽🏝 #redcrabs #christmasislandredcrab #christmasisland #outdoortherapy #mothernature #redcrabspawning @natgeo @natgeotravel @destinationwa @tourism__australia @christmasisland @australiantourism #migrations

By popular demand, the view of that manta from my perspective with footage from the GoPro I was holding. So privileged to swim alongside this beautiful animal...the current was ripping too so it wasn't easy to get this footage, but totally worth the effort! #manta #mantaray #ladyelliot #ladyelliotisland #outdoortherapy National Geographic Adventure #nature #snorkeling #snorkelling #freedive #underwaterphotography #underwater

Something very special about a wild animal allowing you to be in its space & allowing itself to be vulnerable with you. Swimming with my first manta at Lady Elliot Island - I was beginning to think all this manta ray talk was a marketing ploy. Turns out they are there & I'm not completely bad luck! Thank you Cristina for capturing me with this manta so the size can be appreciated! 💙 #mantaray #manta #underwater #outdoortherapy #underwatervideo #ladyelliotisland #mantaswim #wildlife #mothernature #underthesea #snorkeling #goprohero10 @goproanz @natgeotravel

Here's a quick snippet of how many giant Australian cuttlefish can be seen on one short breath hold at Point Lowly - so incredible to be in the midst of this migration time 😍 #giantcuttlefish #giantaustraliancuttlefish #giantcuttlefishmigration #southaustralia #pointlowly #whyalla #outdoortherapy #underwater #diving @natgeotravel @goproanz #mothernature #migration #cephalopod

Cuddlefishing in the icy waters off Point Lowly near Whyalla in South Australia! Amazing experience to be volunteering as an Assistant Guide with EMS - Experiencing Marine Sanctuaries. Blessed to have met Carl Charter who took me under his wing to introduce me to this annual phenomenon where 250,000 giant cuttlefish gather to mate and produce little babies...then die. Such a dramatic circle of life. Thank you to the whole team who made my whirlwind visit so memorable, positive & fun! XO 🥰 James Olanio Danusia Podgorski #giantcuttlefish #giantaustraliancuttlefish #cuddlefish #cephalopod #pointlowly #lowlypoint #whyalla #southaustralia #southaustraliatourism #marinesanctuaries #outdoortherapy #southernocean #coldwater #diving #freediving #underwaterphotography #underwaterworld Australia.com #seesouthaustralia #seeaustralia

My Push-Up Challenge...with a twist 💪🏼😎🏝🤿

Only one more day of The Push-Up Challenge to go. When I took on the challenge, I also took on the challenge to try think of creative ways of incorporating the push-ups into my life. Thoughts on this one?? Thanks for all the support & donations. And thanks to those who have reached out to let me know that mental health has been an issue for them & they appreciate the awareness this Challenge brings to the wider community. My silly push-ups have started up some great conversations & sharing - so although I haven't reached my monetary goal of $500, I've reached the overarching goal of this Challenge - to get people talking about mental health issues & to help each other. Still time for a tax deductible donation here: https://www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/karlinaseekee/the-push-up-challenge #pushupchallenge #lifelineaustralia Lifeline #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #pushforbetter #pushforbettermentalhealth #outdoortherapy #pushupsfordays #helpingothers #reachout #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters The Push-Up Challenge #outdoors #exercise #exercisemotivation #motivation

Reef Swim Green Island - an Ironman Festival event 🏝🏊🏊‍♀️

Super organised and fun Ironman Festival event at Green Island yesterday - Reef Swim. This ocean swim course was carefully set out to take competitors over some coral bommies to distract them from the discomfort they may have been feeling over the 1.5km or 3km swim in some slightly choppy waters. Thanks to Surf Life Saving Queensland for providing the in-water safety along with Great Adventures - Green Island and Great Barrier Reef Cruises dive crew. One of my marine enthusist friends yelled out as she crossed the finish line "I saw a stingray!" She also saw a nudibranch & a sea hare - how you see such tiny critters during a race is beyond me! Other swimmers spotted turtles & loads of fish above the corals. Thanks IRONMAN for the event 🙏❤🏊‍♀️🏊 Best of luck to everyone participating at the main event this Sunday! 💪🏼👊🏼👍🏼 #reefswim #oceanswim #greatadventurescruises #greatadventures #ironman #painistemporary #justkeepswimming #greenislandreefswim #greenislandoceanswim #outdoortherapy

It's really hard to show how impressive this light spectacle is through a phone video - it's something you really have to experience for yourself! If you ever get the opportunity, you must go to see the Parrtjima Light Festival in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Parrtjima essentially means to "light up" in Arrernte language and they certainly did this with a small section of the West Macdonnell Ranges...they also lit up everyone's day/night and our hearts & minds 😍 p.s. watch with sound on! #parrtjima #culture #aboriginalculture #firstnations #lightfestival #alicesprings #mparntwe #cuinthent #explorent #northernterritory #aussiedesert #desertpark #alicespringsdesertpark #parrtjimalightfestival

Love sharing my snorkels with these friendly creatures - whitetip reef sharks ❤️ I still don't understand the fear people express when they see a harmless shark like this. As long as you are not provoking it or you have just speared a fish that's now dying, reefies will simply cruise by. Most of the time they don't even give you a second glance! It's actually pretty special if they do decide to hang about and check you out. I love seeing them out on the reef! Just remember, more sharks die at the hands of humans than humans to the mouths of sharks #sharksareourfriends #sharklover #saveoursharks #saveoursharks🦈#underwater #islandlife #snorkeling #snorkelling #sharks #sharksofinstagram #whitetipreefshark #outdoortherapy #mothernature

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