Very good - thank you for sharing with us all!
Wow Kevin I can see why you'd never go back again after all that ordeal! Thanks for sharing I want to go there to snorkel, sharks or not! I actually snorkleled with Baracuda before, it was eerie, but they found me to be interesting just not in a food sort of a way LOL!!!
The sharks were indeed fascinating, Cathy.
We seperated all our garbage in the kitchen and all "edibles" got sorted into one dumpster, then all glass, all paper, all plastic, etc. in their own seperate dumpsters. Every morning at the same time we'd get a garbage truck and hook-up the "edibles" dumpster to it and drive it across the island (This dumpster contained everything from potato peelings & meat scraps, to moldy hot-dog buns & watermelon rinds, etc.)
We'd pull the garbage truck up to a small "cliff" we affectionately called "The Dump". We'd then position the garbage truck and back it up to the very edge of that cliff (all the while the back-up bell chiming loudly- which alerted the sharks!) We then lifted and tilted the huge, full dumpster back and all that edible garbage- rotten & stinky in the tropical heat- spilled out and fell 15 feet into the crystal-clear blue water!
There would be 3-4 dozen human-sized sharks there waiting for the BUFFET! They would swim rapidly, skimming the surface with their wide mouths opened just licking-up every last bit of refuse. Within 5 minutes there wasn't a single crumb of garbage anywhere to be found!
It was just amazing to watch! The sharks in the Pacific were even crazier than the monster-grizzlies in Alaska when it came to garbage!
We seperated all our garbage in the kitchen and all "edibles" got sorted into one dumpster, then all glass, all paper, all plastic, etc. in their own seperate dumpsters. Every morning at the same time we'd get a garbage truck and hook-up the "edibles" dumpster to it and drive it across the island (This dumpster contained everything from potato peelings & meat scraps, to moldy hot-dog buns & watermelon rinds, etc.)
We'd pull the garbage truck up to a small "cliff" we affectionately called "The Dump". We'd then position the garbage truck and back it up to the very edge of that cliff (all the while the back-up bell chiming loudly- which alerted the sharks!) We then lifted and tilted the huge, full dumpster back and all that edible garbage- rotten & stinky in the tropical heat- spilled out and fell 15 feet into the crystal-clear blue water!
There would be 3-4 dozen human-sized sharks there waiting for the BUFFET! They would swim rapidly, skimming the surface with their wide mouths opened just licking-up every last bit of refuse. Within 5 minutes there wasn't a single crumb of garbage anywhere to be found!
It was just amazing to watch! The sharks in the Pacific were even crazier than the monster-grizzlies in Alaska when it came to garbage!