Plenty of Humpback Whale Activity Today
After two days of hot weather a bit of cloud cover was welcomed here on Moreton Island this Sunday. We got off to a great start to the week having close and personal viewings of 10 whales altogether!
We headed north to Combyoro point where the water is crystal clear and teaming with life, here we encountered 3 separate mother and calf pairs travelling slowly. We found a pod of three whales and after 2 or 3 short dives they totally altered their behaviour and repetitively breached, head lunged, tail slapped and also displayed some very powerful pectoral slaps. The mature male and female turned their glowing white bellies to the sky exposing their ventral pleats and double pec slapping with the calf breaching in front of them. This type of behaviour is more common with choppy water as the whales songs cannot travel as far with the wind noise. We stayed with this group for over half an hour and were very impressed with the performance.
On our way back into Tangalooma we saw another pod of whales only a few hundred meters north of the shipwrecks! Hopefully we can keep up our sightings and beat last year’s whale watching record!