Menjangan Besar Island "karimun"

You remember with a giant man-eating great white sharks over 7.6 meters groundbreaking beautiful beach tourists in Amity Island in the New England region? Or 3 Short Fin Mako shark tail obtaining genetic engineering by Dr. Susan McAlester to be more intelligent, fast, and dangerous? Yes, both are indeed only scenes in the movie Jaws (1975) and the Deep Blue Sea (1999), but enough to instill the perception that everyone head shark is the scariest predators in the ocean.

Great Menjangan Island is located about 10 minutes south of Karimunjawa Island tour offers an experience that is not normal, that is the opportunity to swim with sharks! Covering 56 hectares, it features 2 outdoor breeding with groups of sharks are waiting for you to "play" with them.

Blacktip Reef Shark group occupying one of the pool to be a favorite for some people because the size is not too large. The average adult shark "only" a 1.6 meter long. Among other types of reef sharks, Blacktip Reef Shark indeed be like sandy shallow waters. Even sometimes they even get into brackish water and fresh water rivers. Despite an active predator that preys on small fish, lobster, shrimp, crab, squid, and even sea snakes and birds, types of sharks tend to rarely harm humans, but if caught with food. Well, Big Menjangan Island provides the opportunity to get into the pool filled with a group of Blacktip Reef Shark while some people threw pieces of fresh fish around you to attract the sharks. Dare you to try? When you feel kind of small shark is not challenging enough adrenaline, you can try a different pool-shark-filled shark black larger.

Not only sharks, Great Menjangan Island has a breeding pond with dozens of turtles or hatchlings Tukik and it will be released in the ocean free. As one among the few places that are the habitat of rare wildlife hawksbill turtles and green turtles, Karimunjawa Islands was consistent enough to protect them from extinction.

Like other islands in Karimunjawa, Menjangan Besar is surrounded by beautiful white sandy beaches. On the other side of the island there is a sandbar that local residents called Eternal sandbar. Small Gosongan distribution very soft white sand is dotted by small mangrove trees are new grow and flourish. Similarly, in the coastal waters around this gosongan. Strong mangrove roots into the earth gripping, promising protection for fish and shrimp in the future. This place may be "only" just a beautiful white sandy beach. But some twenty years to come, this will be transformed into fringing mangrove forests, beneath which will safeguard the survival of many of the surrounding ecosystem.