Whale Encounters – Tweed Whale Watch – Aquatic Blue Charters – Gold Coast Queensland – Australia
Sunday 30th August 09 – the whales were quiet in the water but we found the beautiful humpbacks straight off the Tweed Bar, they heard us and came a little closer for a better look – not that interested !! Few whales still going north and slow in the water. Whales diving a bit today.
Monday 31st August 09 – Whales still quiet and in no hurry at all.
Tuesday 1st August 09 – well today was a different story – oh my god !! how good is this – two big humpbacks came straight over to the boat, they rolled over, spy hopped and played games with us for around one hour – of course I was running all over the boat – again !! screams of joy were emenating from my soul at the pure delight of these magnificant mammals brought me and my very excited passengers much joy !!! How cheeky they were and we loved it!!!
Look at me – I am beautiful !!!
This very day we were alerted to an entangled whale off Kirra Beach, a concerned resident from one of the apartments called us to see if we could help the whale,. We left the two whales immediately to attend to this entangled whale, which was 20 minutes away from us, as we were about 6 miles off shore and the entangled whale was off Kirra Beach in the shark nets. We arrived approaching the whale carefully and confirmed that there was indeed a very entangled whale. This 8-9 meter whale had wrapped himself so firmly in the shark nets that he was not going anywhere, luckily he was upright and still breathing. He was not struggling, which was a good sign and patiently waited for help. Authorities arrived and proceeded to free the whale – the whale had been there since around 9am and was eventually freed around 4pm – with the help of a very concerned whale friend who was slowly making it’s way across to the entangled whale as the rescue team worked tirelessly, this other whale was coming to the rescue himself, he became quite angry with the rescuers and thrashed around and possibly encouraging the entangled whale to get moving and then it was on the entangled whale took off and somehow this freed the whale after most of the nets had already been cut away, you should have seen the happiness at the whale being freed, he was one happy happy whale and he took off with his new found friend and I am sure very appreciative of his human friends that saved his life!!! A fantastic end to a grim beginning – I totally disagree with shark nets, they not only trap these poor whales but turtles, dolphins and other marine life – I doubt whether they even catch any sharks !!!!
Wednesday 2nd August 09 – plenty of whales about, nice and quiet in the water – not active today but still great whales.
Thursday 3rd August 09 found hundreds of dolphins today all playing with a pod of humpbacks – this was the most magical thing I had seen in a long time, they swam around the boat, heaps and heaps of dolphins, playing and jumping everywhere, for as far as we could was dolphins. Awesome. We saw around 8 pods of whales too
Friday 4th August 09 seas a bit rougher today, whales about 4 miles off shore, had around 6 pods today, but not active today
Saturday 5th August 09 heaps and heaps and heaps of whales today, two whales came close the boat, one whale just hung upside down for ages, his tail straight up in the air we thought that this may have been a Cow feeding, but it was not, all whales going slow and not travelling just happy hanging around
The afternoon trip was fantastic, they came to the boat, swam under the boat, around the boat, everyone was excited. We named a whale today ‘Milky’
Milky so named by the Dawson Family
Sunday 6th August 09 – heaps and heaps of whales again today and they were diving a lot
The afternoon trip still heaps of whales but more activity with pectoral fin slapping, rolling over – great trip
Monday 7th August 09 heaps and heaps of whales again all in really close today, seas choppy. Several pods all within a small area all going in circles and not really going anywhere. We had our first Calf of the season today, fantastic stuff. Great day.
With the southern migration well and truly underway, we can expect some fantastic stuff over the next couple of months with the babies now on their way back to the Antarctic.
Happy whale watching and hope to see you out on the boat real soon
This has been Carol ‘The whale women’ until next time.