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Thursday 29.10. was a long-expected day for us all. We had stayed 3 extra days in Port Lincoln for one major reason – The Great White Shark -cage diving experience. We got onboard Calypso Star with captain Andrew and the crew Nikki and Matt, and left for the Neptune Islands, appr. 70km south of Port Lincoln.

As the shark-luring blood and seal guts were thrown to the surface of the sea everybody got onto the deck and followed closely what was about to happen beneath the surface.

It took some time, but then somebody finally shouted “there she is, shark on the left!” The huge shadow of this fantastic creature closed on us and finally we saw the full of it, a Great White of maybe 5 meters long! We were spellbound, John Williams’ legendary Jaws-theme banging in our heads, adrenalin starting to rise from the thought of going into the cage to meet these fellas.

We spent maybe 30 minutes in the cage, the sharks coming so close you could touch them (Mikko actually did). We had a few magnificent encounters, their tail-fins banging on the cage, seeing their jaws hit the seal-gut bait in close distance. We were all awestruck!!

It actually took us a couple of days to realize the magnitude of the experience. It was such a thrilling, even poetic moment to be a total stranger in the kingdom of these doll-eyed predators so cold & scary, but utterly beautiful at the same time. South Australians have their Great White Sharks, we have our reindeer in Lapland. I wonder if the locals would get a similar kick out of reindeer-sledging? Equally exotic to them, no doubt.

Check out also the video from the cage:

Shark Cage Diving in Port Lincoln

The next day we left for Adelaide to spend the Halloween there. We booked in Glenelg Beach Hostel, just by the ocean. Kinda cool place but Tuomas and Antti immediately started missing the good ole’ campingsites and the peace n’ quiet. Mikko and Teemu took the best out of the big city nights, which wasn’t that much. The amount of people and noise and turmoil was not what we came here for. Nor was the heartbroken sexual-minority-junkie who tried to share a room with us. And also the Hostel took our wines out and we couldn’t rate them. The hostel we gave our rate. Fuckers. About Adeleides Halloween we could only say that if we bring those costumes to Finland will you girls wear them?

After Halloween, we were happy to pack our stuff and leave for Melbourne, making pit stops at Portland and Apollo Bay. We drove the Great Ocean Road and saw London Bridge and 12 Apostoles includin Matteus, Markus, Luukas ja Pasi.

On the way to Apollo Bay we saw some Koalas! Frightening creatures. Like Gremlins. Watch out. They Kill.

In the latter we witnessed a huge thunder storm, which was a hypnotizing sight to look at. Mikko captured the moment with some cool album-cover-like photos.

Good thing we had rented a cabin instead of sleeping in tents that night. Some work duties got also done. Wines Coming Up!

The Dudes

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