Magnificant Humpbacks Gold Coast Coolangatta Wed 13th August 08
Well, it’s on again, the best show in town is right here off the Tweed Coast and Coolangatta Gold Coast – we saw – we gasped – we screamed with joy – we clapped – we cheered for we were seeing something truly magic – two huge humpback whales ever so peacefully swimming south about 1.5 miles off Point Danger, they saw our boat and decided to join us – well – what a picture – they came straight over, swam under the boat, rolled over so they could see us, rolled and rolled again and again as if showing off their beautiful bodies, dived to show off their tales, swiming along some more and back they came again, this time showing us their entire tale half their bodies out of the water – look at me !!! again coming to the boat, rolling and playing – we were literally gob smacked !!! Then off in the distance we could see two more pods playing and breaching so we decided to head out to the action as our two happy whales had seen what they wanted and carried on.
We arrive at our destination and there were 4 whales heading south, in a playful mood indeed – and low and behold – again we had the whales coming to the boat – we couldn’t believe our luck – this time they were swiming upside down next to the boat, around and around they went – having a real good look at us – do we know you? They breached and played around for some time.
Today we would have seen over 20 whales all going south, sea conditions were fabulous with a light cloud cover and quite chilly – everyone had a ball – what a day!!
I have a pic of our calf born off the Tweed Coast last week – how beautiful is this, we should call this little calf “TWEED”
tHIS HAS BEEN CAROL – THE WHALE WOMEN – UNTIL TOMORROW