We both survived the night in the tent, the only problem was that Slavka vas a bit cold all the night. It's also my fault because I did not take no extra blanket from home. I assumed it won't be so cold and moreover, I was pleasantly all night so really do not know. In Perth during the winter she was sometimes warmer than me, but it did not work out tonight and she was freezing all the time. But we survived, we woke up to a beautiful sunny morning.
We quickly packed up the tent and all the things, we did have a breakfast and I already can not wait for the trip. We came to the travel office something before nine in the morning, choose a wet-suit goggles and snorkel. However, since evening Slavka was getting panic that the water will be too cold and I could sense she doesn't really want to go there. But trip was already paid and we could not cancel it, so I had to convince her a not to be afraid so much of everything and at least to try the wet-suit. Already in travel agency I got the attention with fitting the neoprene, I tried it with zipper at the front, and that's the other way round ... so I was remembered much from the beginning and everyone knew me the whole tour. But this has been ultimately proved to be very good, because I'm at the most of the photos that they then did. And it is quite good, right?
Slowly it's almost time for sailing, so we went to the port to embark on our great ship. We were about 23 passengers on board, including three from the travel agency and captain. Very nice staff. There were with us also lots of small children, luckily they were pretty nice all the way. After about half an hour we arrived at the place of destination. Captain explains the basic rules of how we have to behave with the seal lions before we go in, as there are in protected areas and are actually wild animals. The rules were simple, do not catch them, they may have try to catch us, it is also forbidden to go to their island and of course take shells, since it is a protected area.
Then the captain himself went to the island to get the curious and playful sea lions in the water. He just slaps his fins on water to alert them that we are here, let them go and swim a little with us to play. And truly it was not long time before a few sea lions immediately jumped into the water behind him. It looked like as a mom would call her kids for a lunch. All obediently swam along with the captain to us. Therefore, we quickly dressed in neoprene and jumped into the water, because if the sea lions don't find anyone in the sea, they will return back to the island, because there is no one to play with.
How to describe it, they were simply amazing. I was in the water the whole time, until there was time to leave, just over an hour. You must constantly swim, dive, twist yourself, shake fins so that sea lions try to imitate and thus swim with you. They are very beautiful creatures, all the time, I tried to approach them within reach, and I managed it with one. We swam against each other and sea lion normally give me a kiss on the nose. Supposedly this is commonly done, out of curiosity. But Slavka just watched it all from the deck of a ship, I couldn't get her into the water. Not because of the temperature, because in wet-suit it was really very nice, even too hot. That she also tried. But she was afraid of the waves and also breathing through the mouth, since we had to wear masks. And that is pity indeed, it was unrepeatable experience, and absolutely gorgeous. Maybe I will manage to teach her snorkeling and eliminate the stress and fear so that the next time we can swim together.
At the end of our sailing we got a small degree. Back in the town we quickly went to the camp to take a shower from the salt water, and then we went to the agency to get all the underwater photos. They've made a DVD for us so we have a nice memories out of it. Even then, we chatted with everyone and it turned out that half of the workers live in Perth and they travel here only for the weekend. They also advised us of other place nearby where it is good to go, so at least we have some ideas for our next trip.
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