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Such a good shark day, especially since we haven't been on the water for 2 days!!! First trip we saw about 10 different sharks and a good amount of action on the second trip as well. Lots of Americans today, most from Texas and a few from Virginia! 'Merica taking over! After the trips went to spar to get some groceries for the braai later tonight!

Before the braai I attempted to cut Nicolas hair, with the help of Klara after a while. Doesn't look too bad ha! A hair dress is definitely not a career in my near future!

Braai was great had a delish T-bone steak, potato salad, green beans and green salad! Yum!

Have two trips tomorrow again at 9 and 1 so hopefully the sharks are out to play again and the visibility is good so I can dive! Sunday is my last day here, going to miss everyone soo much!!!

The big 50!

Trip was cancelled!! Yay! Another day off. Got to sleep in til about 9 and then decided to be productive and went for a run. Ran all the way to the boats near the great White House and then popped in at Nicolas flat since it was on the way back to say hello!

Went to hermanus to do a little shopping, got a necklace, bracelet and some really cool salad servers!!! Now on the way back to kleinbaai to relax.

Not much activity for the evening just went over it Nicolas with kit to chill a d the. Came home and went to sleep. Back to work tomorrow with 2 trips.

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Moved to the White House yesterday so new place to sleep tonight. It was a very comfy bed and I have a room to myself again. Only had one trip this morning and then listened to Ollie give a lecture of shark tagging, very Interesting! Tomorrow we have a no sea day because it is going to be very windy so we are going to a wine farm, cheese factory and possibly a brewery

Took a nice and well deserved nap and the. Decided to be proactive and o for a run. Ran up the street and down to the dock and then came back, except on my way back I took a slight wrong turn and got lost. Not too lost though as soon as I turned the corner I realized it and turned around ( in the back of my head hoping that was the right decision).

Later in the evening, Nicola and I took a nice walk down to the rocks. Such a pretty place and so relaxing. Went back to Nicolas flat and hung out then came back to my house to watch a movie with kit and jayson, plus I was hungry. Nicola is very sweet but the more and more I hang out with him the more he reminds me of my cousin grant, their voices are very similar and it's kind of weird. Not to mention he has a girlfriend.

Worked on editing my aquarium video, thought it would be easy but this shot is HARD!!! I'm not a very good editor ha.

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Busy day today, big group in the morning and and exclusive trip in the afternoon. A group of 5 Russians, not that much fun. Didn't do anything exciting at night, just went over to Nicolas's flat and watched movies. Strange wilderness and the sitter. Strange wilderness seriously makes you feel stupider and the sitter was funny. He's a pretty cool cat besides the fact that he has a girlfriend. :(

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One trip in the am at 10 and a second at 1. Worked both :( so exhausted. I would do anything just to rest but that is not possible, after second trip we played touch rugby again plus did a few back handsprings. So mad at myself because people asked me to do back tucks and I was a scared-ey cat and said " the Sand Is to soft" what the fuck Nikki, too soft. What did you want hard?!? So mad at myself!!!!
It did feel great to cook tonight, made some pasta with meat sauce. At 9 the taxis picked us up for the bar. Nicola was there but he left early. I'm going to ignore him the next week, not even worth my time. Such a talker...kinda mad at him
Actually....will wee see how he acts when I see him tomorrow, he probably thinks I'm joking about being mad at him. Have two trips tomorrow. One at 10 and 1 possibly.

Walked into the house ( came early, by myself) and fell over the stupid stool ( which I had left close to the door way). Ouch my knee, just one more battle scar/bruise to add to the collection.

Eating some left over pasta and then hitting the sack, go t Busy day tomorrow. Good night world!!!

day 43, 2nd day vols.

Got up about the same times as yesterday, had to be at the Great White house again at 8. This morning some of us went on the boat, the others had to get pick, cut and wash some kelp stems. Then we had to make them into circles and lay them out to dry. This is all being down for a memorial of a shipwreck on the 26th of Feb. Not too bad of a job, got done before the 1st boat got back to ate some lunch at the restaurant. I have baked potato with chicken mayo on top, sound so weird but DELICIOUS!!!! Got to go on the second boat trip, and the visibility had cleared up a lot ( not super clear but at least you could see about 3 meters in front of you), so I packed myself a wet suit to take another look at these Gorgeous, majestic and amazing animals we call Great White Sharks!

Camera = CHECK

GoPro =  CHECK

Memory card for GoPro = not so much!

I was so mad! but at least I have 11 more days to go swimming with the sharks, so no worries video's will be coming soon!

Whale

Water was so cold!!!! But it is worth the pain so see a shark swim right by you, so close you could touch it! I had the best seat in the house right at the end near the Bait thrower!

The big guys were out today and my my were they playful!!!

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First day as a volunteer!!! I'm ready to rock and roll baby! Had to wake up at 7:00 to be down at the Great White house by 8. My task on the morning was to go help get the boat ready! So that's wiping down all the seats and hand rails, pretty much making it look neat and pretty! The first trip launched at 8:30. Saw some massive sharks! Didn't bring my camera but I "borrow" some of Nicola's from the marine dynamic blog (www.sharkwatchSA.com) A crazy client did chug a cup of chum ( the ground up fish and fish oil we used to attracts the sharks to the boat) for R300 from his buddies from Australia. Crazy dude! I would have never done it to just 300, that's like $30!!! No freaking way bru! HA. The second boat launched back to back with the first, so it was a long day at sea, but definitely worth every second! Saw about 6 sharks in the morning and a good but in the afternoon. Rosie, hung around for a good bit and gave everyone a show. After the diving was done for the day we headed to Spar ( a grocery store) to get food for the braai. One girl, Kate, was here for 6 weeks on her second visit, and she is leaving tomorrow so we had to send her out with a bang. I roomed with her so after tomorrow I will have to room to myself! Yippeee!

Braai was fun, played beer pong and listened to music. Nothing to crazy just chill. Headed home around 12 to hit the sack and get ready for another shark-filled day!

The love bird Kit and Rebecca.