Humpback Highway Gold Coast Australia – Migaloo is on his way
Monday 21st – 9 whales
Whales breaching off Cook Island off Fingal Head, Gold Coast about 2.5 miles off shore – found them pretty early in the trip – great stuff – happy little whales. Found another pod of 2 off Coolangatta, they were moving slowly north and heading out to sea, we could see whales breaching on the horizon, where our whales were heading out to. We shortly came across another whale off Burleigh, not active and on his own. On our way back into Coolangatta we came across two more pods of 2 whales in each.
The sea became sloppy by around 11am but the morning was great and we all had heaps of fun – as i do !!!
Tuesday 22nd June – 10 whales
A sloppy sea this morning but we had plenty of whales, we came across around 10 whales and more off the horizon breaching. We moved between 3 pods, we had some breaching but most of the time these whales were on a mission and heading north steadily. The last pod we came across was breaching, rolling over and pectoral fin slapping. All in all a pretty good day with plenty of whales now starting to come past.
We are expecting Migaloo to swim past over the next 48 hours, he has been travelling slowly up the coast or so people have reported, we don’t have any photographic evidence yet though, he would normally come past the Gold Coast last June early July, so he is pretty much on track with every other year. Whether we get him past here during the night or on one of our trips is another thing !!
Today I received this lovely email from Nerida who came out with us on the 16th with her family and she has sent me this email – thought I would share this one with you all.
Carol, & team
THANK YOU so very much for a wonderful whale watching tour. Sea-sickness for 2, and the roller-coaster ride on water not withstanding, we all (yes all) had a beaut time and felt very well looked after with the personal and caring service offered the whole way there and back. We surprised ourselves with actually getting a few photos we are happy with also :
This was one highlight of our week long stay …thank you again J Will recommend your tour group to our friends/family should they go to QLD, and will certainly be happy to go out with you again myself.
Thank you
Best regards
Nerida
Trip 16th June 2010
We are heading out again tomorrow and will be on the lookout for Migaloo
This has been Carol the ‘Whale Women’ until next time