Gold Coast Whale Watching At It’s Best – Queensland Australia
Thursday the 2nd July 2009 brought absolutely perfect conditions for whale watching. The entire day was a big hit with many pods of humpback whales now passing Coolangatta on their way north.
On our first trip at 9am we encountered a Minke Whale happily swiming along by itself, not too far from a pod of humpback whales. We had fantastic viewing this morning with the whales breaching all around us, camera’s clicking madly to catch that perfect shot of the humpback breaching – some people managed some beaut shots!
On the second trip at 1.30 we had more whales than the morning trip and plenty of action. Several pods joined together and we could see loads of action as they pushed and shoved each other around, chased each other all over the ocean, what a great time they were all having and we were lucky enough to see it all. The whales swam in all directions, one came up right next to the boat and gave us all a fright as he came up for air – no one could believe it - what a great day.
We dropped the hydrophone over the side to see if we could hear them singing, but they were too busy playing games with each other. At one stage, we had pods of humpbacks all around the boat, we could hear people calling out ‘there’s another pod out the back’, ‘look at that breach over there’, ‘there’s another pod of 5 out there’ truly magical stuff.
It’s getting better by the day – can it get any better? You bet and as I write this, it is now Friday morning at 7.10am and I’m just about to head out the door to do it all over again – god I love my job !!! Must go I have a very important date with a whale!!
This has been Carol “The Whale Women”