Humpback Magic – Coolangatta/Tweed Heads, Gold Coast Australia
We’ve done it again – AN AWESOME DAYS WHALE WATCHING off Coolangatta. The magic of the Humpback Whale – it never ceases to amaze me – even after all these years !!! Today, was, is possibly the best day we have had whale watching since yesterday !!! Another day of whales coming to the boat – today we had one single sub adult absolutley MOB the boat, he was actually chasing us across the ocean – a passengers yells out “Look there’s a whale right there, he is following us!” as we looked to where she was pointing, sure enough one big whale right beside the boat, Tony quickly slowed the boat down and we began to watch and enjoy a magical experience with this whale for one and a half hours !!!!! He swam beside, underneath, behind, rolling over looking at us, spy hopped several times – oh my god !!! how good is this – I got off my post and began to run around screaming with joy, clapping madly and yelling out to my new friend – the whale of course !!!
The excitement was high and people were so amazed, he left us for a short time, only minutes, then returned again and again and again, then he had picked up a mate, as there was a pod of 6 whales only about 200 meters away, he bought his mate back to meet us, the mate stayed back and in came our new found friend again, now by this time, I was beside myself and on the back deck, laying down and smacking the water madly with my hand and calling out to him, he then swam across in front of me, spy hopped me, rolled over in front of me and all the people on board were totally blown away by all of this !!!! We were now in tune and I was ever so happy and very wet by this stage ! Wow what an experience.
The whales at this time are just hanging around a bit, seas are great and the water is clear – fabulous Whale Watching today as is every day.
This has been a very excited Carol “the whale women” until my next post.
