Whale Watching – Gold Coast – Tweed Heads/Coolangatta 18th October 08
What a fantastic day out watching the humpback whales today, the seas were calm and no wind and HEAPS of cows and calves travelling back home to the antarctic. We set out at 9am from the Tweed River and within 10 minutes and she yells ” WHALES”, We had four pods of whales all around Pt Danger and Cook Island, we spent the first 1/2 hour with our first cow and calf, not doing too much, so decided to move off to the other pods, the waiting game began, we followed them past Cook Island and watch three pods join up, a bit of pushing a shoving, but nothing too spectacular, these whales were not in any hurry at all, just happy swimming in a circle, possibly feeding today.
We decided to leave these pods and headed out to sea and out yonder a calf breaching – there she is and off we went. The weather was magnificant the whales – A PLENTY !! On board today we had Rod and Elisa, happy winners of voucher we donated to Camp Quality with their two sons – they sent me a couple of great pics of their day to me but unfortunately, don’t seem to be able to download them – never mind !! They enjoyed their day out with us as did everyone today and always !!! So looking at the pictures, that you can’t see, we had breaching whales today – how cool!!! Yesterday we had a cow and calf breach together – yes that’s right together – and a happy customer ‘ Lee’ captured the shot!! sorry haven’t got his pic for you either !!! So here’s a breaching whale anyway.
This has been Carol the ‘Whale Women’ until tomorrow.