You remember with a man-eating great white sharks along the tourist-shattering 7.6 meters in Amity Island in the beautiful coastal area of New England? Or 3 fin Mako sharks are getting short of genetic engineering by Dr. Susan McAlester to become more intelligent, fast, and dangerous? Yes, both are only scenes in the movie Jaws (1975) and the Deep Blue Sea (1999), but enough to instill the perception in everyone's head that the shark is the most fearsome predator in the ocean.
Menjangan Besar island, located about 10 minutes south of the island Karimunjawa offers unusual travel experience, a chance to swim with sharks! The island has an area of 56 acres with 2 ponds breeding groups of sharks that have been waiting for you to "play" with them.
Blacktip Reef Shark group who inhabit the pond became a favorite one for some people because the size is not too large. The average adult shark "only" has a length of 1.6 meters. Among the other reef sharks, Blacktip Reef Shark is known to prefer sandy shallows. Even sometimes they also go into the brackish waters and freshwater rivers. Although an active predators that prey on small fish, lobster, shrimp, crab, squid, and even sea snakes and birds, rare species of shark are likely to harm humans, unless provoked by food. Well, the Big Island Menjangan provides an opportunity to get into the pool contains a group of
Blacktip Reef Shark while some people threw chunks of fresh fish around you to attract the sharks. Dare you try? When you feel kind of small shark is not challenging enough adrenaline, you can try an other ponds containing black sharks are larger in size.
Not only sharks, Menjangan Besar Island also has a turtle pond with dozens of turtle hatchlings or the child that will be released in the ocean. As one of the few places that the habitat of the endangered hawksbill and green turtles, Karimunjawa was consistent enough to protect them from extinction.
As with other islands in Karimunjawa, Menjangan Besar is surrounded by beautiful white sandy beaches. On the other side of the island there is a scorched by the locals who called the megapode Abadi. Gosongan small with a sprinkling of very soft white sand is dotted by small mangrove trees that grow with the proliferation of new. Similarly, the coastal waters around this gosongan. Strong mangrove roots grip into the bowels of the earth, promising protection for juvenile fish and shrimp in the future. It may "only" just a beautiful white sandy beaches. But some twenty years to come, it will be transformed into charred mangrove forests, a paradise that will maintain the viability of the surrounding ecosystems.