Humpback Magic Gold Coast Queensland Australia
Friday 3rd July 09 – WOW!! how good is this – 3 whales breaching together !!! Oh My God !!!
Heaps of humpback whales around Coolangatta today, they all seem to be out wider this year, still close enough to see the land around 4-5 miles out to sea. We are taking a maximum of 30 minutes to find them as we leave the river at Coolangatta/Tweed Heads – just perfect really as everyone gets a fantastic ride on the boat, view the landscape – that is to die for !! and then we go whale watching – all too good !!! Today’s whales simply awesome.
Saturday 4th – found a large pod of 6 humpbacks all happily playing, one black whale in amongst the group and he was the one breaching along with one of the others. Other whales spotted further out. The pods came reasonably close, but not to the boat today.
Today – well !!! What an unreal day – words can’t describe how happy I was today. The water was calm, no wind, no swell and plenty of happy people onboard. The day started out very quiet, everyone was about to go to sleep, the whales were doing it so why not us !!! THEN watch out wake up – two whales came right next to the boat and scared the —– out of everyone – that woke them all up !!!! Then it started – the whales were on the surface, becoming active and the excitement began.
We had a pod of two very big whales swimming along, then they breached together – what a sight – we were so so so happy !!!! We had a couple of boats around the whales that we were not happy about and the whales reacted by diving and going quiet, but when they all left and settled down again we got more action. How good is it to watch whales !!! Dam good.
This afternoon – even better than this morning – we found two whales swiming along really slowly, water was dead calm and no wind. Quiet again in the water, not doing too much but just happy having plenty of surface time, we spent about 1 hour with no action, again, people sleeping on the deck, getting board, THEN away they went, we believe it was a female being entertained by a very attractive male, he breached and breached and breached around her, pectoral fin slapped, rolled over and swam in circles around her, whilst she just cruised along, spy hopping and not trying to take too much notice, after about the 20th breach she joined in and we got double breaching !!! oh too much fun – best trip of the entire year – accept of course Migaloo this was pretty dam good today !!!!
Me very happy !!!!! (does anyone read this ?)
This has been Carol the “Whale Women” until another day !!!