In March 2016 my beloved and I were in northwest Western Australia, “sailing” on a motorised yacht from Broome to Wyndham.
(with many “tinny” side-trips to islands, tidal creeks, beaches, waterfalls, etc)
We were “exploring” the Kimberley Coast – the world’s greatest tropical coastal “wilderness”.
Around 7am on the fourth day of March, we were just a few kilometres distant from Horizontal Falls – this coastline’s most celebrated “attraction”.
By Grand Canyon standards, visitor numbers were infinitesimal.
However, by “way-out-of-any-town” Kimberley standards, we were in severely tourist-infested waters.
Accordingly, some local sharks have learned that a boat may provide a “free feed”; we were far from the first tourists to observe a very relaxed shark, so “amazingly close” to “their” boat.
To my knowledge, “our” boat did not feed the shark.
Nonetheless, the image immediately above does show a mutually beneficial relationship between a “client” (the shark) and some “service providers”..
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