Humpback Whales Everywhere – Gold Coast – Queensland – Coolangatta
Sunday 27th June – around 10 whales
The whales are really starting to come through thick now, one pod of one whale straight off Coolangatta by 9.20am, not terribly interested in the boat, so we left him and headed out to a breaching pod on the Horizon, came across a pod of dolphins off Coolangatta. We reached our pod and he was still breaching – what a fabulous little whale. We left him happily moving along and headed south to find another pod of one off Coolangatta, not very active, just having a little rest, then we spotted another pod of 2 coming up from the south and another pod again behind them – all in all a great day out with several pods spread out.
Monday 28th June – around 80 whales – yes that’s not a miss print – 80 whales !! around 30 in the morning and 50 in the afternoon
Found whales off Kingscliff at 9.35 breaching, seas were good. We saw a couple of ganets, our pod had 2 whales, we then saw another pod further south breaching. We then came across heaps and heaps of whales in pods of 2 and 4 they were everywhere, they came close to the boat several times and had one pod breach really close to the boat – the crowd went wild with excitement!! What a great morning.
Monday 28th June we headed out in search of Migaloo, as we had heard that he was sighted off Byron Bay early this morning, so we expected him to take around 7 hours to get to Coolangatta – off we went and did we find some whales – oh my god – this afternoon – I have never ever in my 10 years of watching whales seen so many whales in one day! We travelled from Coolangatta for miles down past Pottsville in search of the big white fella and came across many many pods of adult humpbacks – these whales were huge and travelling reasonably quick north, they were spread for miles and miles from close in to shore to way out wide – what a sight I just couldn’t believe the amount of whales – but no Migaloo.
There has been a few sightings of white whales – there are at least two travelling the coast – Migaloo is pure white and Baloo is white with black markings on his tail I think – so people can be confused. But now we know that Migaloo is definately up past Fraser Island and safe for the time being. What a day!!
Tuesday 29th – over 20 – 30 whales
Another fantastic day out to sea with whales everywhere. We had dolphins in the river and plenty of dolphins out to sea with plenty of bait fish for them by 9.15. The ocean was nice a calm today. We came across one juvenile 3 miles off Coolangatta, another breached off Burlegith and another pod out wider and a pod int he south, flying fish today, they are fantastic. A large flock of ganets resting on the water. Came across of pod of 4, they were divers, so left them headed south, found a pod of 4 off Cooli in close, breaching and saw another pod breaching off Cook Island. Had more whales all in around Cooli and Cook Island this morning. One sleepy little whale came close to the boat for a look all this by 10.20am – oh my goodness so much to see. We headed off to a breaching pod of 4, with pectoral fin slapping and one of them breached just in front of the boat – how cool was that !!! let me tell you that was Cool !!! Heaps more ganets. More dolphins and more whales what a great day out – now wonder I love whale watching season – so much fun and joy – happy happy happy
Must go and watch more beautiful whales – will come back to this post tomorrow for the updates for the rest of the week – it has been AWESOME !!! every day has been sensational
This has been Carol the “Whale Women”