Humpback Whale Highway – Coolangatta – Queensland – Gold Coast – Australia

The season has been simply awesome with heaps and heaps of whales swimming past.  We have had brilliant weather and very friendly seas!!!  Good conditions for the entire family

Monday 5th – did not go to sea

Tuesday 6th –

3 pods off Cabarita Beach all breaching – what a sight!! As we approached we could see them all playing around with some pec slapping and all three pods were within 500 meters of each other – fantastic.  We saw one turtle, all this action by 9.25 am – great stuff.  The 3 pods had now turned into 4 pods and plenty of action from all of them.  We travelled with the pods, they started to move away from each other and we then returned to one pod that was coming up from behind them.

Plenty of action and moving quick now.  The whales are all travelling in large groups again, quite evident with big gaps in between the travelling pods.

In the afternoon we had whales breaching off Tugun by 2.05 around 5 miles out to sea, breaching several times, in fact this whale did not stop breaching for the entire hour that we spent with him, we worked out he was breaching 10 times every 5 minutes, we were getting tired just watching him over and over – he finally stopped and started pec slapping and then he was tired and slowly swam out to sea – Wow What a show that was !!  We saw terns today.  We had another pod off Cooli and Cook around 3.30pm.  We could see more whales out wider breaching.  Great day today.

Wednesday 7th

We searched and searched over many miles of sea this morning, searching, searching, one of those days were the big group had gone through around 8am and now we had nothing – no this couldn’t be happening – no whales in 4 years – no way were we going to let this happen !!!!  Then Ariana saw in the sun light a splash and a blow and then we didn’t see it again for some time, but we were now hopeful – we had a whale !!!  We went over and searched and there he was and what a beautiful whale he turned out to be – he spent one hour with us, swiming in behind the boat, in front, on the side, this side, that side, underneath us – what a wonderful whale and very curious and a little playful, he was swiming ahead of us and then circling around underneath us and coming in behind us – everyone was thrilled to bits with our little mate.

We had an Albatross today – gee they are beautiful – great day

Thursday 8th – didn’t go to sea too rough and very very windy

This has been Carol the ‘Whale Women’ until next time