Whale Watching Gold Coast Tweed Heads/Coolangatta Australia Tues 14th Oct 08
Wow! what a brilliant day we all had today whale watching off Coolangatta! We started with me giving the group a great pre-departure talk, reved them up for what was to be a great day, off we headed. I am often asked ‘how far out do we have to go to find the whales’ my answer ‘where ever the whales are that’s where we go’ another great questions ‘how long is it before we see whales’ again ‘can be 10 minutes, can be 1 hour – depends where they are’ another beauty ‘how do you find them, with a plane or sonar’ my answer ‘we’re good, we find them with our own eyes!!!’ people just don’t believe that one !! but it’s true !! Anyway, get on with the story !! today we didn’t have to wait too long or go too far or call in the planes !!! As we left the bar at Pt. Danger – out comes the cry ‘WHALES’ you should have seen the look on peoples faces, ‘your joking, right?, already !! where?’
From this moment on, we had a continuous flow of cows and calves throughout the entire trip, we would have viewed over 10 pods of humpback whales, nearly all cows and calves, we had one calf frighten the daylights out of us and swam right under the boat, came up for air and we are screamed, had no idea he was there along with mum and they just kept on their merry way! We had calves breaching, pectoral fin slapping with two pods joining together of cows and calves and the littlies were having a whale of a time !! breaching and tale lobbing whilst the mums watched close by, after about 20 minutes the pods split off and travelled on.
Along with this excitement off the Gold Coast this morning, we had a pod of bottlenose dolphins come to the boat and a Green Sea Turtle and plenty of flying fish, plenty of sunshine and a gentle sea – GREAT DAY OUT !!
This has been Carol the ‘Whale Women’ until tomorrow