My coup de gras, I got the one young male breaching twice, this is the best series, even though I missed a bit of this one. The second series is a bit further away, so some more cropping therefore more quality loss. The man on the boat said that this guy is a little unusual as well as he has a black belly, the bellies are usually white.


WE happened across a young female whale fairly early in the trip. She was constantly tail slapping, believed to be a means of communication. A young male soon joined her and they performed alot of tail aerobatics but no breachinhg. Now some whale facts, some that amazed me, from the man on the Spirit of Hervey Bay:
The whales head north to give birth (calve) and mate in the warmer waters of North Qld. It is a 6 month journey in which they cover some 12000 kilometres. They are baleen whales which mean they have no teeth, this also means they do not eat for the 6 months of their journey. It also means they are covering roughly 70 kilometres each and every day. They live in the freezing cold pole waters, and survive due to a layer of blubber, around or up to two feet thick when they head north to breed and calve. This reduces to 6 inches thick after the 6 month journey without food. The calves of course are born without much or any blubber and would not survive in the antarctic waters. They are mammal so they drink milk but the whale does not suckle from it's mother, the female whale releases the milk containing 42% fat, which makes it kind of like yoghurt into the water and the calves pick it up from there. They have a growth rate of 80 kilos per day, that is phenomenal. They are essentially loners, forming loose groups for very short periods of time, maybe only a few hours, a mother has a bond with her calf for 12 months. The whales come into the bay in three basic groups, the juveniles, youngsters which are there now, mothers and calves, followed by the older males.

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My coup de gras, I got the one young male breaching twice, this is the best series, even though I missed a bit of this one. The second series is a bit further away, so some more cropping therefore more quality loss. The man on the boat said that this guy is a little unusual as well as he has a black belly, the bellies are usually white.


WE happened across a young female whale fairly early in the trip. She was constantly tail slapping, believed to be a means of communication. A young male soon joined her and they performed alot of tail aerobatics but no breachinhg. Now some whale facts, some that amazed me, from the man on the Spirit of Hervey Bay:
The whales head north to give birth (calve) and mate in the warmer waters of North Qld. It is a 6 month journey in which they cover some 12000 kilometres. They are baleen whales which mean they have no teeth, this also means they do not eat for the 6 months of their journey. It also means they are covering roughly 70 kilometres each and every day. They live in the freezing cold pole waters, and survive due to a layer of blubber, around or up to two feet thick when they head north to breed and calve. This reduces to 6 inches thick after the 6 month journey without food. The calves of course are born without much or any blubber and would not survive in the antarctic waters. They are mammal so they drink milk but the whale does not suckle from it's mother, the female whale releases the milk containing 42% fat, which makes it kind of like yoghurt into the water and the calves pick it up from there. They have a growth rate of 80 kilos per day, that is phenomenal. They are essentially loners, forming loose groups for very short periods of time, maybe only a few hours, a mother has a bond with her calf for 12 months. The whales come into the bay in three basic groups, the juveniles, youngsters which are there now, mothers and calves, followed by the older males.

Tags:   hervey bay qld queensland fraser coast fraser island whale humpback whalewhale tail slap whale peduncle throw whale breach spirit of hervey bay breaching whale hervey bay watching 2013 hervey bay whale watching whale watching 2013 whale watching hervey bay whale watching 2013

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My coup de gras, I got the one young male breaching twice, this is the best series, even though I missed a bit of this one. The second series is a bit further away, so some more cropping therefore more quality loss. The man on the boat said that this guy is a little unusual as well as he has a black belly, the bellies are usually white.


WE happened across a young female whale fairly early in the trip. She was constantly tail slapping, believed to be a means of communication. A young male soon joined her and they performed alot of tail aerobatics but no breachinhg. Now some whale facts, some that amazed me, from the man on the Spirit of Hervey Bay:
The whales head north to give birth (calve) and mate in the warmer waters of North Qld. It is a 6 month journey in which they cover some 12000 kilometres. They are baleen whales which mean they have no teeth, this also means they do not eat for the 6 months of their journey. It also means they are covering roughly 70 kilometres each and every day. They live in the freezing cold pole waters, and survive due to a layer of blubber, around or up to two feet thick when they head north to breed and calve. This reduces to 6 inches thick after the 6 month journey without food. The calves of course are born without much or any blubber and would not survive in the antarctic waters. They are mammal so they drink milk but the whale does not suckle from it's mother, the female whale releases the milk containing 42% fat, which makes it kind of like yoghurt into the water and the calves pick it up from there. They have a growth rate of 80 kilos per day, that is phenomenal. They are essentially loners, forming loose groups for very short periods of time, maybe only a few hours, a mother has a bond with her calf for 12 months. The whales come into the bay in three basic groups, the juveniles, youngsters which are there now, mothers and calves, followed by the older males.

Tags:   hervey bay qld queensland fraser coast fraser island whale humpback whalewhale tail slap whale peduncle throw whale breach spirit of hervey bay breaching whale hervey bay watching 2013 hervey bay whale watching whale watching 2013 whale watching hervey bay whale watching 2013

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My coup de gras, I got the one young male breaching twice, this is the best series, even though I missed a bit of this one. The second series is a bit further away, so some more cropping therefore more quality loss. The man on the boat said that this guy is a little unusual as well as he has a black belly, the bellies are usually white.


WE happened across a young female whale fairly early in the trip. She was constantly tail slapping, believed to be a means of communication. A young male soon joined her and they performed alot of tail aerobatics but no breachinhg. Now some whale facts, some that amazed me, from the man on the Spirit of Hervey Bay:
The whales head north to give birth (calve) and mate in the warmer waters of North Qld. It is a 6 month journey in which they cover some 12000 kilometres. They are baleen whales which mean they have no teeth, this also means they do not eat for the 6 months of their journey. It also means they are covering roughly 70 kilometres each and every day. They live in the freezing cold pole waters, and survive due to a layer of blubber, around or up to two feet thick when they head north to breed and calve. This reduces to 6 inches thick after the 6 month journey without food. The calves of course are born without much or any blubber and would not survive in the antarctic waters. They are mammal so they drink milk but the whale does not suckle from it's mother, the female whale releases the milk containing 42% fat, which makes it kind of like yoghurt into the water and the calves pick it up from there. They have a growth rate of 80 kilos per day, that is phenomenal. They are essentially loners, forming loose groups for very short periods of time, maybe only a few hours, a mother has a bond with her calf for 12 months. The whales come into the bay in three basic groups, the juveniles, youngsters which are there now, mothers and calves, followed by the older males.

Tags:   hervey bay qld queensland fraser coast fraser island whale humpback whalewhale tail slap whale peduncle throw whale breach spirit of hervey bay breaching whale hervey bay watching 2013 hervey bay whale watching whale watching 2013 whale watching hervey bay whale watching 2013

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My coup de gras, I got the one young male breaching twice, this is the best series, even though I missed a bit of this one. The second series is a bit further away, so some more cropping therefore more quality loss. The man on the boat said that this guy is a little unusual as well as he has a black belly, the bellies are usually white.


WE happened across a young female whale fairly early in the trip. She was constantly tail slapping, believed to be a means of communication. A young male soon joined her and they performed alot of tail aerobatics but no breachinhg. Now some whale facts, some that amazed me, from the man on the Spirit of Hervey Bay:
The whales head north to give birth (calve) and mate in the warmer waters of North Qld. It is a 6 month journey in which they cover some 12000 kilometres. They are baleen whales which mean they have no teeth, this also means they do not eat for the 6 months of their journey. It also means they are covering roughly 70 kilometres each and every day. They live in the freezing cold pole waters, and survive due to a layer of blubber, around or up to two feet thick when they head north to breed and calve. This reduces to 6 inches thick after the 6 month journey without food. The calves of course are born without much or any blubber and would not survive in the antarctic waters. They are mammal so they drink milk but the whale does not suckle from it's mother, the female whale releases the milk containing 42% fat, which makes it kind of like yoghurt into the water and the calves pick it up from there. They have a growth rate of 80 kilos per day, that is phenomenal. They are essentially loners, forming loose groups for very short periods of time, maybe only a few hours, a mother has a bond with her calf for 12 months. The whales come into the bay in three basic groups, the juveniles, youngsters which are there now, mothers and calves, followed by the older males.

Tags:   hervey bay qld queensland fraser coast fraser island whale humpback whalewhale tail slap whale peduncle throw whale breach spirit of hervey bay breaching whale hervey bay watching 2013 hervey bay whale watching whale watching 2013 whale watching hervey bay whale watching 2013

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