Close Encounters

My mother in law is a real go-getter.

We went for a walk up the other end of the beach at Eco Beach one morning. The landscape was completely different, with more of your traditional beach colours.

The tide was rapidly approaching - WA has massive tides, bigger the further north you get (Derby, right at the top has 10m tides...). While walking, a channel started to form between us and the shore. We soon realised that this channel was filled with baby shovel nosed sharks! These guys blended in with the sand but would soon scoot off if you got too close. They scooted everywhere, even over our toes at times!

We were happily enjoying these precious little ones, when we spotted something that was rather larger...a shark, yes. Hopefully, from my research done later, just a gummy shark (as it has two fins) so therefore not a bitey one, but it's not the sort of thing you want to take chances with! Thank goodness for the 18-200mm zoom so I could prove our bravery.

Although I must admit that while my mother in law wanted to swim I requested that we move out of shark territory before we do so - I'm a bit practical when threatened with a chunk bitten out of my leg. My mother in law wins the bravery award for wanting to swim in shark territory.