Two Humpbacks Cruise Past

Well folks over the weekend we have enjoyed the company of divers from "The Dive Shed" Busselton. Two dives on the dive wreck "HMAS Perth" on Saturday and then "The Cables" and the "Cheynes II" today.
 The weather was perfect and as we headed out to the islands this morning several km from Princess Royal Harbour channel I spotted 1 Humpback whales cruise past several hundred metres away. We slowed to give the divers a quick look but this whale did not wish to be seen again. The guys loved the dive at "The Cables" And we headed over to the Cheynes II for our surface inter-vile. As the last of the divers are entering the water for there dive on the wreck of an old whale-chaser "Cheynes II" a call from several non divers enjoying the day on the fly bridge, alerts us that 2 humpbacks are cruising from with in "King George Sound" towards "Bald Head" They are about 1000m to our stern and just cruising, we watch them, and one of the divers jokes that she is worried about the whales coming close. Oh she should be so lucky. Id love to dive with a humpback whale as it cruises past.

Something to add to my bucket list, "head to Tonga and dive with Humpbacks" So the whales are arriving now we need some whale watchers.

Here They Come

Tuesday morning and we have 52 students from a Rockingham school join us on a morning cruise. We head out and cruise along Outer Brambles cruise over the passage between Mistaken Island and the northern end of Goode Beach. We enjoy some morning tea as we look for some dolphins. As we sit off Whale World talking about the days of whaling in Albany one of the local fishing boats calls to tell me that they spotted a couple of blows in a line between the the safe water marker and Michaelmas Island. We head out to see if we can find the whales. We do have some time constraints so cant spend too much time looking. But no luck today. We head towards Middleton Beach and back towards home and as we re-enter Princess Royal Harbour the deck from the fishing boat that had spotted the whale phones me to say he is sitting up on  Marine Drive and he can see the whales we were looking for, but they are now on the outer limits of King George Sound.

Season starting soon, as first whales now being seen.

2012's whale watching season is not far from starting, as today one of the dive operators in Albany told me that they had spotted a Humpback whale while diving out between Michaelmas and Breaksea Island. We had also heard of a southern right whale being sighted off "Two Peoples Bay" some 3 weeks ago. Our tours should start in the first week of June.