So for my Birthday i decided we were going to go Whale watching, Tess had been reading Moby dick and the timing seemed perfect. The only problem was dragging our sorry butts out of bed at the crack of dawn so we could get to the boat!
I have to admit that i was expecting to see one whale several miles off for a second and that be it...and thats how it started
.....then they just seemed to appear around the boat, the marine biologist started by saying 'now look to the left and you will see ...' to then 'Wow! just look anywhere off the boat and you will see something!'
They managed from people photos on the journey back to identify over 20 different individuals! We saw several mothers and calf's humpbacks and lots of feeding!.
The feeding basically involves swimming round under water blowing bubbles so the fish get confused and trapped in the middle of the circle, then the whales come up in the middle with their mouths wide open.
The sea birds fly round looking for an easy meal and often sat on the whales whilst they swam round! Then one woman shouting something about 'Believing' and grabbing an oar jumped off the ship and danced on the nose of one whale whilst the rest of us chanted 'SHAMU, SHAMU'
Ummm......
The three hours flew past then we headed back into town for some food shopping and a movie. A good day allround! Anyhoo the pics dont really do it any justice, kinda just look like wet rocks!, but it was truly amazing!
I have to admit that i was expecting to see one whale several miles off for a second and that be it...and thats how it started
.....then they just seemed to appear around the boat, the marine biologist started by saying 'now look to the left and you will see ...' to then 'Wow! just look anywhere off the boat and you will see something!'
They managed from people photos on the journey back to identify over 20 different individuals! We saw several mothers and calf's humpbacks and lots of feeding!.
The feeding basically involves swimming round under water blowing bubbles so the fish get confused and trapped in the middle of the circle, then the whales come up in the middle with their mouths wide open.
The sea birds fly round looking for an easy meal and often sat on the whales whilst they swam round! Then one woman shouting something about 'Believing' and grabbing an oar jumped off the ship and danced on the nose of one whale whilst the rest of us chanted 'SHAMU, SHAMU'
Ummm......
The three hours flew past then we headed back into town for some food shopping and a movie. A good day allround! Anyhoo the pics dont really do it any justice, kinda just look like wet rocks!, but it was truly amazing!
2 comments:
emonilThe crazy lady with the oar......did she have and english accent? Because since you posted the video we havnt seen aunty T, said something about finding fame in the u.s and left :-)
Shamu and I are very happy, didn't think anyone would find us!! At last I have the fame I've always wanted, see you all in two years time when you come back to see our show lol PS I'm now using my very impressive Irish accent which is very good when I tell people to Turn Left at the next junction :)xx
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