Whale Sharks are our friends! Come and say hello!

We have a wonderful opportunity for you, your family and your friends, to take a trip to see, and potentially interact, with the most amazing and majestic of marine animals, the whale sharks. See link.

Whale sharks are animals and are the largest marine fish in the ocean!

They are not whales, they are sharks. They are filter feeders, meaning they need to eat vast amounts of small shrimp, fish and plankton as their staple diet! Humans are not on their menu… at all!

As this trip can only be done certain times of the month, we would recommend that you time your trip to see these unbelievable marine animals, as this is an encounter that should not be missed.

Facts of majestic whale shark (Rhincodon typus)

They are an inquisitive creature and have the ability to learn and often want to investigate and interact with humans when they come in close proximity.

Their behaviour is one of the most docile of the sharks that exist and does not present any danger to humans. Snorkelling, diving and freediving with whale sharks, is a unique and special life experience.

Despite giving birth to live young, they are not classified as mammals. They are cold blooded and breathe oxygen through their gills through water extraction. They are very large in length, hence the name ‘whale’, growing up to 18 metres long, although the average size is 10m.

In the Galapagos 13m+ whale sharks visit the Darwin and Wolf islands to give birth to their live young. They reproduce up to 300 live babies as the whale shark, along with the great white sharks and basking sharks, are from the Ovoviviparous species.

This means they give birth to the babies inside the mother’s womb, initially as an embryo inside an egg: after a period they break free and live inside the mother’s womb feeding until big enough (up to 60cm long), to be given birth to as live babies. They are rarely seen less than 3m in length in the ocean where they slowly emerge.