Saturday 19th June – Coolangatta Whale Watch – Gold Coast Queensland Australia
Sightings this week:
Mondays photos 14 June 2010
Tuesday 15 June 2010 - 4 whales
Sloppy sea and a bit warmer today. Found 1 pod with 2 whales off Burleigh, around 5 miles. This cow and her last year calf we not active at all – in fact – not at all interested in us today. We left this pair and headed south and found 2 more whales off Cook Island around 4.5 miles. This pod gave us one breach and also very quiet in the water.
Wedensday 16 June 2010- 4 whales
Reasonable sea conditions with a gentle swell and nice winter conditions. Found 1 pod f 2 whales straight off Coolangatta by 9.30am. The pod entertained us with breaching – fantastic stuff. We then spotted two other pods, so in the end all three pods joined for some play time. Great Day
Even got Mt Warning in this one – what a life !!
Thursday 17 June 2010 – 5 whales
A fantastic day out with the whales, we found one pod of 2 breaching whales off Cook Island around the 9 miles reef (4.5 miles out to sea). Then another pod of 2 whales and another pod of 1 whales. All pods were in around the 5 miles off shore and spread over a few kilometers today. Had a great day today.
Friday 18 June 2010 - did not go to sea
Saturday 19 June 2010- 2 whales
We left the Tweed Bar and straight away found a pod of whales off Coolangatta about 1 mile off shore, they were not humpbacks, we think they were minke whales feeding, very hard to keep up with them as they moved quickly chasing food, we spent around 20 minutes trying to capture them on film, but they are very quick and only got a few shots. We left this pod of around 6 and headed south in search of the beautiful humpbacks, it wasn’t too long before we came across a very happy pair of humpbacks straight off Coolangatta, around 4 miles out. What fantastic whales we had today, they breached and breached and breached, rolled over, tail lobbed and came to the boat a few times which delighted everyone, especially me !! The pair also porpoised several times – what a show today OMG~! great stuff We spent around 1 hour with the pair who were very happy with our company, we bid them goodbye and made our way back towards Coolangatta. Around 1 mile off the Tweed Bar we were greeted by a very large pod of Common Dolphins who joined the boat and swam with us for around 5 minutes – another fantastic day.
This was today’s little beauty – we had this action all hour – awesome !!!
What more can I say,