Whale Watching from Hervey Bay

Yesterday we took a day trip up to Hervey Bay to go whale watching. After a 2 hour drive and nearly missing the boat we set off into the Great Sandy Straights and Platypus Bay in the search for whales. We weren't disappointed within 20 minutes of setting off we had our first sighting of.. you guessed it dolphins!


Flipper and his friend.

We then went along the shore line of Fraser Island to see if we could spot any Dingoes, but we didn't see any.


Fraser Island - Very picturesque.


Kate posing on the boat.


Our first glimpse of a whale about 1 hour into the trip.



He gave us a wave.



And a wave of his tale.

A bit later on we found another pod (a small group) which were very inquizative and came right up to the boat.

(I've got a vid to put on as well)

To keep the whales interested in us we all had to wave and make noise to attract them back to the surface, so every minute or so they would pop back up and blow spray up at us. After about an hour we had to leave the whales, but the only way we could do it was to get another boat near us, so they could get the whales to go over to them and we could start the engine and move off.

Even on the way back there were still whales appearing in the distance, even more dolphins, but we couldn't stay with them as we had been out to long already. In all we visited 4 different whale pods and 2 dolphin pods which was pretty good.