Long deep dive day

Fri, 28 Jul 2017

By Eco Ranger Tessa

Long deep dive day

The whales were quite elusive today, as they repeated deep dives during the cruise. The first whales were sighted in the shallow water, north of Moreton Island. Moreton Bay Marine Park has an average depth of 25 metres, with many shallow sand banks. These first two whales were swimming above a shallow sand bank (max. 5 metres depth) so it was incredible to see their outlines of their bodies under the water! After we watched these two, we continued to Flinders Reef.

We soon sighted more pods of elusive Humpbacks that performed deep dives. As we played hide and seek with these whales, we soon got to see a fantastic double breach, only 300m from the Tangalooma Jet! It was great to end the whale watch cruise with a big splash!

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Eco Ranger Tessa

Tessa is one of the many Eco Rangers at Tangalooma Island Resort's Marine Education and Conservation Centre. Tessa often joins in on the Whale Watching Cruise as the on board Eco Ranger commentator.

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