Whale Encounters – Tweed Whale Watch – Gold Coast – Queensland – Australia
Friday 28th August – so calm out to sea – the humpbacks were everywhere, but ever so quiet in the water – a sleepy day for our fond friends. 95% of the humpbacks are heading south now and in no hurry whatsoever, just happy going along. We had two trips today and more whales in the afternoon than the morning. We had whales close to the boat this afternoon and heaps of humpback whales chasing each other all over the ocean – what a site !! As we were coming in over the Tweed Bar, Tony came to a holt – what is going on !!!! oh my god it’s two whales lounging around in the bar !!!! Sipping on Tequila Sunrises no doubt !!! There they were in their glory, rolling over and not at all concerned that we had stopped all of a sudden so as not to run over them and of course get our last look at these magnificant mammals,. Then off out in the waves another whale SURFING !!! you wouldn’t read about it !!!! Plus the dolphins were swiming with them ! what a treat !!
WHAT A DAY !! WHAT A WEEK !!! HOW GOOD IS THIS !! OUR AMAZING TRIPS MADE THE NATIONAL NINE NEWS ON TUESDAY NIGHT WITH THE KILLER WHALES AND CHANNEL 7 NEWS WITH THE HUMPBACKS ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT – NOT TO MENTION NUMEROUS RADIO INTERVIEWS !!!
Today – well let me tell you !!! shall I ?? Yes we did it again – these humpback whales just love us !!! or is it me they love !!!! only joking.
Today with a full boat of happy passengers about to encounter a couple of marine mammals that will touch their hearts – we set out on an adventure. We head North East off the Tweed Bar in search of our fond friends the Humpbacks, Tony climbs on the roof whilst I drive the boat and away we go. It’s only about 10 minutes on the otherside of the bar and we hear ‘there she blows’ from Tony up on the roof, Michael downstairs yells ‘whales to the starboard’ Carol yells ‘huge breach towards Burleigh’ and it’s on !!! We’re off to the whales tail lobbing about one o’clock ahead – what we found were two very very friendly Humpbacks who fell in love with us !! We just couldn’t believe it – this is too good to be true how lucky are we – everyone was totally amazed at these two whales that splashed us, rolled over and played games with us for 2 hours – they went from one side of the boat to the other, under to the front swam belly up, belly over, belly in – any which way – every way, I was on the back – again !! calling out, they were a gift from the whale gods !!! oh and whilst all this was happening there were several and mean several other pods all about 500 meters off, breaching, tail lobbing, fin slapping and doing what ever whales do !!! HOW GOOD IS THIS !!! DAM GOOD LET ME TELL YOU !!!
- I think Javier from France will remember his time in Australia with fond memories of Humpback Whales and the Gold Coast