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couple of days of strong winds over, so we head out Thursday morning
with word that a whale has been sighted at the entrance to Princess
Royal Harbour. We find a small whale as it cruises along Outer Brambles.
We follow for while and then head off to see what we can find.
We cruise between Mistaken Island and along Goode Beach, past Whale world and then we see a breach out east of us. The whales breach several times but by the time we get there they have had enough of that game. We follow the whales as they head towards Bald Head and then loose them for a bit. I knock the boat out of gear and sit for a while, every one is on look out and then they surface about 80 metres away from us.
They are heading towards us so Jason turns the motors off. The whales are up wind so no rules have be broken and now the whales are at the stern of the boat. With motors off, the whales are quite happy to swim around the boat and we are getting some good photos. The other whale watching vessel arrives to see whales spy hopping along side our boat. Our passengers are getting a good wiff of whale breath as the whales continue to swim around us.
The thought of putting the go-pro over the side comes to mind but of course the batteries are flat. Oh well I'll have to just put this one in the memory bank. We have had the whales along side us for about 45 minutes and now they have had enough, even though several Common Dolphins have now joined them.
We head back to shore. Every one scanning the photos they have just taken to see how they went. Hope we get a few people sending some through to our Trip Adviser link.
We cruise between Mistaken Island and along Goode Beach, past Whale world and then we see a breach out east of us. The whales breach several times but by the time we get there they have had enough of that game. We follow the whales as they head towards Bald Head and then loose them for a bit. I knock the boat out of gear and sit for a while, every one is on look out and then they surface about 80 metres away from us.
They are heading towards us so Jason turns the motors off. The whales are up wind so no rules have be broken and now the whales are at the stern of the boat. With motors off, the whales are quite happy to swim around the boat and we are getting some good photos. The other whale watching vessel arrives to see whales spy hopping along side our boat. Our passengers are getting a good wiff of whale breath as the whales continue to swim around us.
The thought of putting the go-pro over the side comes to mind but of course the batteries are flat. Oh well I'll have to just put this one in the memory bank. We have had the whales along side us for about 45 minutes and now they have had enough, even though several Common Dolphins have now joined them.
We head back to shore. Every one scanning the photos they have just taken to see how they went. Hope we get a few people sending some through to our Trip Adviser link.
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