Snorkelling today we had a fantastic encounter. Meeting up close with a Hawksbill turtle!

He was cruising the reef and we got to swim with him for more than half an hour!

Its about 4 meters deep here. Sheryl comes to take a look.

He was browsing on the bottom and got used to me being around.


He went back to biting away at corals on the reef.


Investigating the camera on the tripod... is it edible?


Going up to take a breath - only once every ten minutes or so.

Such a privilege to see an animal like this in the wild!