Gold Coast Whales Monday 18th August 08
We headed out the Tweed River early for our regular whale watching cruise off the Gold Coast/Tweed Coast, the sea was calm, a little overcast and cool. Within 10 minutes we had word of whales about 3 miles off shore, so off we headed and came across a pod of two humpback whales making their way south. Before we even got within koowee of the pod one of the whales turned sharply and headed straight for us, as if he had found a long lost friend and was coming to greet me !! The other whale kept on his merry way, this fellow was more interested in us than his companion – lucky us!!
This AWESOME – FANTASTIC – FRIENDLY – LOVEABLE WHALE spent the next hour playing with us, turning upside down, he spy hopped and looked straight at me with his beautiful big eye wide open – oh my god that was truly amazing !! he continued to move around and under the boat from side to side giving us the most amazing show, he blew bubbles at us, we all got wet, he did this several times as if playing a game, placing his body just under the water and he blew out his air and the water sprayed us, it was like a bubbling volcano, he rolled and just kept on coming to the boat to look at us, he was enjoying every single moment of our excitement and screams of joy as we reached out to him.
To have such a beautiful up close and personal experience with this whale has blown me away and I have been whale watching for many many years – I cannot even begin to explain how wonderful it is to have these magnificant whales in our waters and to have them so interactive with us – it’s like they wanted to be with us and enjoy our company – then we thought he had left and moved away to be with other whales that were heading our way, as if they had heard about the fun this whale was having, he came back and bought his friends with him and he did it all over again – how very very lucky we were on Monday – I will post a couple of shots that we took on the day
This has been Carol the whale women until tomorrow!!
Look at me !!