Tweed Heads – Whale Watching – Gold Coast – Queensland – Australia
What an amazing season we have had this year, so many beautiful humpback whales swimming past Coolangatta and fabulous weather shining down on the Gold Coast.
It’s Saturday 19th September, the sun is shining, the sea is calm and we have plenty of humpback whales playing just off Tweed Heads this morning. Not overally interested in the boat, but very interested in each other, we had humpbacks chasing each other all over the ocean and around the boat today – fantastic stuff.
In the afternoon, heaps and heaps of humpbacks all just lazing around, they were breaching and having a whale of a time !!! sorry !! Great afternoon.
Sunday 20th Sept another beautiful calm day off Coolangatta we possibly had around 30 humpback whales on the trip this morning, not overally active, all swiming in circles, happy just hanging around, had about 6 calves today, one pod of humpbacks stayed with us and followed us around for most of the trip.
This afternoon, choppy conditions, no swell – pretty good. The whales were out wider this afternoon, plenty of humpbacks swam close to the boat, they rolled over and breached – lovely day – had large turtles, flying fish and dolphins.
Monday 21st Sept - humpback whales going north today – harder to find early on and then heaps around 11am.
Tuesday and Wednesday too windy stayed home.
Thursday 24th – really calm off the Gold Coast today, found a couple of single whales racing north, not very active. Found a cow and calf in closer to shore of Tugun, absolutely fantastic, the cow brought her 4 meter calf straight to the boat, she let the calf look at us from both sides of the boat, from the back and then just moved off, as if to say ‘there you go junior, that’s what humans look like!’ FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE.
Friday 25th – humpbacks still going north – amazing. Great trips morning and afternoon.
Saturday 26th – a rough day – cancelled trips. So many calves breaching madly off Coolangatta, must have been around 8 pods all having a great time in the rough conditions.
Sunday 27th – heaps of whales about – whales still not moving south in a hurry, just relaxed and happy.
Monday 28th – choppy conditions with fantastic whales and heaps and heaps of calves and adults all moving steadily south. Calves breached all trip, cow brought her calf to the boat and everyone was beside themselves with excitement.
The season is in full swing with plenty of humpback whales now heading south, not in a hurry yet and not too far out from shores, upto 3.5 miles out to sea, so not far.
Migaloo has been spotted off Burnett Heads last Monday 21st and today he was spotted off Byron Bay, so he’s on his way home now to safe waters we hope – keep those Japanese whalers well away from our whales – go the Sea Shepherd and Green Peace.
Happy whale watching or whale encounters until next time this has been Carol the ‘whale women’.