Sharks at Sandy Beach
 

Went to Sandy Beach on Friday night - been about 4 times now, nice relaxed place with chalet / BBQ etc.

Good snorkel site at Snoopy Island too.

Got up Friday morning and went out to see if I could see any turtles, which I had before and that is really cool.

However this morning, before breakfast I came across 3 of these little things:-

http://www.oceanwideimages.com/image...reef-shark.jpg

A cuddly 6 foot black tip reef shark....

Scared the crap outta me... even though I know they're not dangerous to see something the same size as you in the water is pretty intense when you don't expect it!

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So how far off-shore were these critters?

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Snoopy Island at high tide is about 100m off shore, but at low tide you can walk out to it.

These sharks tend to like shallow water, I saw them in about 4 to 5 feet of water....

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That's why I prefer to swim in places, where there's chlorine in the water and tiles on the floor :)

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Seeing a whale would scare the crap outta me!

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should have went to the horse racing..plenty of beached ones on show

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Wikipedia reckons there have been 28 unprovoked attacks and 13 provoked attacks in 2008.The question is who would provoke a shark?

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I once told a great white that his teeth needed seeing to.

He didn't seem to mind.

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..er..people who stick out their tongue with their fingers in their ears ? http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/i...ile_neener.gif

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Sandy Beach is great for diving, we saw Sharks there about 4 years ago. it's a really nice chilled out place to visit..The restaurant is crap though.

PS..I know people say the island looks like snoopy laid on his back..I cant seem to see it myself.

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..see photo...though the head should be much taller than the belly !!

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I am absolutely terrified of sharks, seriously bad. It is so bad that I panic when I try to go into the sea here. I have to try and control it as I don't want to pass it onto Mitten but if I am in the sea I am scared. I have been to the Maldives twice and spent all my time at the pool. It all goes back to when I was a kid and saw a shark attack on the beach in South Africa. They say if you know when it started you should be able to confront it and sort it out. :(

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I've heard (or read) that there are about 10 species of sea-snake in the Gulf not least due to the warmer waters here and they are quite regularly washed up on the beaches at Abu Dhabi. If you take a bite off one of those things then you've had it as they are deadly.

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But why would you want to bite one?