Adelaide – Adelaide (Itinerary 1)
Evening Prior departure: Most passengers arrive in Adelaide the day before departure. A complimentary welcome gathering is held at the Rodney Fox Shark Museum the evening before departure, at 6pm. Here passengers get to meet the dive team, each other and here is an ideal opportunity to consider any last minute supplies or hire needs before we depart in the morning.
Day 1 (Departure Day): Expedition members are transferred to the vessel in Port Adelaide, and we depart by 12 noon. Once underway we have lunch, and that afternoon passengers have time to settle into their cabins and familiarise themselves with the ship. We serve meals, present talks, and prepare for the days ahead. After Dinner there is an opportunity to review of some of the classic shark videos in our collection. We aim to be on our first shark location before breakfast.
On
location: Once on location we start chumming and watch out for
sharks. We start cage diving and when conditions allow we also offer island
excursions. After a test dive to orientate new divers with the shark cage
divers are free to enter and exit the cages at their leisure. There is
plenty of time just to relax or get involved in our research collection,
or just enjoy the shark action topside. Activities revolve around the
current shark activity, the shore parties, meals and special talks. After
talks the nights are free to stargaze and tell stories. The Ship is big
enough to get away from people and find some privacy. We generally stay
on location during the day, usually moving location only during the night
to give us maximum productivity.
On some longer 8 and 9 day dates we transfer some passengers doing just
the Split Trip half way through the tour. We spend some hours tied up
at the wharf in Port Lincoln overnight allowing passengers to stretch
their legs and walk the towns foreshore at night. Some passengers like
to drop into the Tasman Hotel and play a game of pool and say farewell
to any passengers departing.
Last Day Arrival in Adelaide: After a full previous day on location we depart for the 14-16 hour overnight journey back to Port Adelaide, arriving to our homeport around 11am on this final day. We deliver all passengers back to the Adelaide Airport, their accommodation in Glenelg or at the Shark museum, where people base from until their flights leave later that day.
Many passengers, staying the night of return in Adelaide, often get together back at the Shark museum and plan a restaurant meal that night. This depends on remaining numbers and individual wishes.
Note: Any afternoon flights planned on this last day out from Adelaide, should ideally be organised no earlier than 1-2pm. However if necessary we can still often make up time to connect to earlier flights. Please advise if this affects you!
* Special Dates 2005
Feb 28-Mar 8th have new special itinerary
- Carl Roessler Joins Rodney and Andrew Fox
- The 9 day and 5 day dates have an option to swim with the beautiful and rare Australian sea lion, at Hopkins Island, a small colony far away from our regular shark viewing locations. (subject to weather)
- The Fox Shark research Foundation will deploy a Satellite tag onto a Great white Shark
- The changeover time for split date passengers is in the morning.
February 28th to March 8th. 8 Nights Adelaide to Adelaide
- *Adelaide departure time is 12 noon Feb 28th.
- *Includes 1 day scenic cruise and swimming with Australian sea lions, 6 days at shark locations
- *Adelaide arrival is 11am on March 8th