Posts Tagged ‘Ocean Eco Experiences’


Great Whites loving ACDC!

There are new fans in the ACDC mosh pit! These are a little different species to the ones that most are used to in the pit; Bigger, faster, meaner and more ferocious. They are also graceful, intelligent and also scare the living bejesus out anything that gets close to them!

This is the Great White Shark and the new  stage with the volume cranking is Shark Bay, Neptune Island and just a 2.5 hour cruise off Port Lincoln, South Australia. Like many others, I’ve been drawn to the ACDC rockers over their journey but did not expect these predators of the ocean been drawn to them as well!

Proven and friendly partners of Goin’ Off Safaris, is world class operator Matt Waller of Adventure Bay Charters who is enticing sharks to his cage and boat and offering the only berley free Eco friendly Great White Shark Cage Diving Experience in Australia!!! Matt is using audio sound vibrations to attract the world’s largest predatory fish, with ACDC being the Great Whites favourite music!! The benefits of using the sound vibration is that it is omnidirectional and instantaneous and completely eco friendly.

Shark action has been red hot for some time now with 5-7 sharks still being seen daily so next time your doing the air guitar to Thunderstruck, dancing like Angus Young and jamming to Hells Bells, think of the sharks and get on down here!


Sealion Swimming at Bairds Bay

There are many great things that we do whilst on tour at Goin Off Safaris & yesterdays experience is absolutely world class.Alan & Trish Payne run Bairds Bay Ocean Eco Experiences in Bairds Bay( which is 50 km south west of Streaky Bay), where they take us out swimming with sealions. The interaction is amazing as these playful mammels swim around you & are clearly having as much fun as you are!

Al & Trish have never fed the sealions, but just with consistent interaction with the colony that live on Jones Island have got to understand, know, trust & respect the sealions. Lots of them have names & like humans, they all have different personalities & traits & are lots of fun. I had the experience of actually cuddling up to one & putting her to sleep, others can let you stroke or pat them & others love tickling your feet as you watch their mates swimming or playing in front of you!

Its perfectly safe, swimming in shallow rock pools just off the island which is just a short boat ride from Bairds Bay itself. Further out in deeper water is the resident pod of bottlenose dolphins. These are beautiful creatures & we also have the oppotunity to slip in the water & have a swim with these rippers as well. It really is a great day & is one of the very few places in the world where you can experience this interaction.

To finish the day off, it doesnt get any better than sipping a few cold beers in the Streaky Pub looking over the water !