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this week you find us exploring the

Capricorn group hoping to swim with

manta rays our first anchorage was to be

fitzroy reef where we've been told there

was a good chance of an encounter so

with the weather expected to close in

we made haste while the Sun Shawn the

Fitzroy entrance is narrow however well

marked so even though we'd come in late

for a reef and ridge we could still see

the bommies that we needed to avoid next

morning my honey was off to catch a fish

in a cut-through that we've spotted with

the drone and I of course was off

exploring the bright corals and

creatures in the neighborhood

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like Puff the Magic Dragon we have a

fresh lady

strawberry raspberry banana let's get

into it and so we dropped off the

mooring and set sail for lady musgrave

Island

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if you

this night we are carrying out to

another

Troy now we're heading off to lady

musgrave with weather has closed Phyllis

so we've got another day and a bit

before we need to be making ground

towards Bundaberg so yeah we could

actually sit out at lady musgrave I

believe we could sit down a southerly

Buster but we actually have some

commitments in Bundaberg that we've got

a catch ever going to give another video

uploaded for you guys so yeah our time

is short so we're hustling hustling

hustling anyway it's going to be a good

sale and all the laser in that I think

we're gonna get a spinnaker run fingers

crossed

which would be really nice

yeah we've got to get into it before

y'all green zones we're gonna sneak in

on us again a bit of a while we

can

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the big sushi roll up

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rounding the end of the reef we had our

ankle for musgrave so hoisted the

spinnaker in its sock and after

attaching the tech line to the clue up

she went for a spirited ride onto lady

musgrave island

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so we're just checking out the marks to

line ourselves from to come in I'm very

excited to to check out this roof first

thing I'm going to do is get in the

water cuz it's pretty hot baby

well yeah we'll just check out this

channel make it through the channel hang

a righty and then find somewhere nice to

anchor up

yup baby excitements

open dope it's open

hello we had dolphins for about point

five of a second how exciting by the

time I ran back and got the camera they

were gone but they were dolphins they

were dolphins the channel at Musgrave is

well marked making for an easy entrance

at high water we were delighted with a

turquoise view that greeted us first

order of the day was to get wet and cool

down

then get the blood pumping with a little

supper size

I really liked us up not only is it

great exercise it's somewhere that I can

stretch practice my yoga and release my

mind an added bonus is that I can suss

out the reef from above and find

interesting areas to free dive

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today we spotted some reef sharks

playing about so when to have a look

not long afterwards we had a pretty

special encounter with one of our

favorite creatures

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out of the blue appeared a large manta

ray and what an absolutely beautiful

creature

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mantas are one of the largest fishes in

the world which is amazing considering

they feed on microscopic plankton and

despite their size they're harmless

creatures their tail doesn't have a

stinging barb and the teeth are only

used during their fascinating mating

ritual so I thought I'd talk to you

about the manta rays I mean how

beautiful was that that was just the

most heartwarming experience

sort of hang out with that manta ray

they're just so gorgeous they call them

the gentle giants of the ocean and they

truly are I think the Australian Manta

actually grows to about a 5 meter

wingspan and that was a really big Manta

and just gliding through the water round

and around and around that body was just

so beautiful and you know keeping an eye

on us and checking us out just to see

where we were really not scared at all

by our presence just beautiful what an

encounter

I just just magical encounter with other

creatures on this planet this is what I

mean about sort of making us sort of

putting us in our place you know we are

equal with everything in my view

each manta ray has its own

identification markings so you can see

on the white-bellied side they have like

black dots or markings and each one of

those individual to their manta ray

itself I think that's pretty cool kind

of like how we might get birthmarks

but I was also reading that that matters

are coming on the endangered list which

is a real shame for such a beautiful

creature

they're being hunted these days for a

specific part of their body for Chinese

medicine and yeah so it used to be sort

of subsistence hunting but now it's it's

sort of mass production hunting and

they're also lots more mantas are being

found with injuries

such as

net knitting and ropes caught around

them or strikes that you can see from a

boat so yeah there's just more and more

humans out on the oceans and and you

know leaving our waste for defenseless

animals and creatures to to have to deal

with and some of that waste is killing

them which is just it's heartbreaking

I hope the planet we can change our ways

if you do see a manta ray there's a

group called protect manta and I'll put

their link below in the description and

you can take send your photographs and

your reported findings to them because

they do take keep statistics and love

all the manta rays that they do come

across so yeah if you're interested it

would be really helpful I think to help

this group keep Studies on the marine

animals and creatures and biology that's

what I know in Australia I'm sure if

there are mountain raised in your areas

they're probably

organize monitoring groups that you can

find that you can track down and share

your information with just to help them

understand more about the manta rays

there's such a beautiful creature and

you know they deserve our help at night

and conservation as do all and many

creatures on our planet so that's my

little little thing for you encourage

you to look out for men to race if

they're in your area yeah and if you do

ever get to swim with mantas you know

what an incredible experience

they're quite curious creatures and so

they are quite interactive with

snorkelers and divers

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