Strong winds were forecast for Albany this morning but when I arrive at the boat we have very little wind.
We head out and talk to Bernie, who tells us that all the whales are out on the line.
It takes us about 35 minutes to get to where we pick up the first blows. But we see it a couple of times and then its gone. We see blows off towards Breaksea Island and there may be 4-5 whales in this pod so we head in that direction.
As we get closer the pod has broken up. We find 4-5 heading towards Bald Head, 2 whales heading west to Albany, 2 whales several hundred metres north and 3 whales heading south west.
We follow the larger pod as they are charging around with no real direction.
I have the Go-pro mounted on the fly bridge and now recording.
(I am still to go through the footage and see what we captured)
We follow these whales as they slowly head towards Bald Head with many changes in direction.
Now we have one of the other pods join in and the whales become even more active, with whales coming half out of the water or stopping and arching their backs and then diving.
The pod starts to move now faster in any direction. At one point the pod is about 3oo metres from a pod of 3 and there is an all-mighty splash and all the whales have dived. Now foot prints start to appear in the direction of the pod of 3. The whales are charging in that direction just under the surface of the water and when the 2 pods connect the splashes erupt again. It would be amazing to see what happens under the surface at these times. We are now not far from the seals at Bald Head and its about time to head home. We have been watching whales now for about 90 minutes and we all have some photos and video to check to see if we captured any thing we can share with all our friends.
We head home and the wind has increased as forecast wonder what we will have tomorrow.
We head out and talk to Bernie, who tells us that all the whales are out on the line.
It takes us about 35 minutes to get to where we pick up the first blows. But we see it a couple of times and then its gone. We see blows off towards Breaksea Island and there may be 4-5 whales in this pod so we head in that direction.
As we get closer the pod has broken up. We find 4-5 heading towards Bald Head, 2 whales heading west to Albany, 2 whales several hundred metres north and 3 whales heading south west.
We follow the larger pod as they are charging around with no real direction.
I have the Go-pro mounted on the fly bridge and now recording.
(I am still to go through the footage and see what we captured)
We follow these whales as they slowly head towards Bald Head with many changes in direction.
Now we have one of the other pods join in and the whales become even more active, with whales coming half out of the water or stopping and arching their backs and then diving.
The pod starts to move now faster in any direction. At one point the pod is about 3oo metres from a pod of 3 and there is an all-mighty splash and all the whales have dived. Now foot prints start to appear in the direction of the pod of 3. The whales are charging in that direction just under the surface of the water and when the 2 pods connect the splashes erupt again. It would be amazing to see what happens under the surface at these times. We are now not far from the seals at Bald Head and its about time to head home. We have been watching whales now for about 90 minutes and we all have some photos and video to check to see if we captured any thing we can share with all our friends.
We head home and the wind has increased as forecast wonder what we will have tomorrow.
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