Coolangatta Humpback Whale Season

The Humpback Whale Watching season is off to a great start.  Tony and I went out this morning for the first time this season and were pleasantly surprised with what we found.  Just 3 miles off the Coolangatta head land we came across our first whale “there she blows” calls out Tony, well the excitement was pumping as we awaited the next blow, then there it was again – yippee !!!  As we patiently waited for the humpback to surface again, “there she blows over there” another pod about 4oo meters to the left – we couldn’t believe our luck – our first trip out and we had two pods.

But wait there’s more – as we sat waiting and waiting and waiting – there in front of us the most beautiful thing out – our beautiful humpback breached – didn’t that get everyone screaming, the children onboard were going crazy, screaming and jumping all over the deck, then off she went again – oh yes this was good, by now I’m up to the railing and yelling out with joy. As we were getting over this excitement we spotted another pod out wider and the other pod coming to the surface about every 10 minutes.  Then our happy humpback came to the surface again, took the regular 3 breathes and then tail dives to our joy yet another breach – sweet!!!  So by now we are all very happy little vegemites!!!  We spent about 1 1/2 hours with our friendly whale and left him to continue his journey.  But wait there’s more !!!  how much better can this get – yes it can !!  We came across around 100 dolphins – my goodness how good is this, they came to the boat and swam with us for around 10 minutes, there were calves splashing around, common dolphins riding the bow wake, as we all looked over the front of the boat you could see heaps and heaps of common dolphins swimming under us – what a fantastic day out !!!

So all in all a great day and hope there’s plenty more of them

This has been Carol ‘The Whale Women’ until tomorrow