Whale Watching

A few Saturdays ago we got invited to do some whale watching with our friend Lisa we met going through Thailand. The Indian Ocean was calm as but Aimee still managed to get sea sick...

Aimee > Craig > Lisa

We caught the boat from Freemantle and headed out into the Indian Ocean just a few miles north of Rottnest Island. It took us about 30 minutes to get there, and once we found the pod of whales we seen them in all their glory.
Our first encounter with the whales was a female teaching her baby how to breech, this was amazing. The mother would jump out of the water then a few moments later the little whale would copy exactly what she done. It was breath taking. Although these whale were a good distance away you could see everything.

The captain drove the boat up as close as we are allowed to go, and then we seen around 12 whales all at different times doing doing different whaley things. The boat was turned off and the under water microphone was turned on. Well this made Aimee fill up, the sound of the male whales singing to attract the attention of a female sounded so beautiful.

A few moments later some of the whales decided to investigate our boat, they came up so close, humpback whales are enormous! They then decided to show off, showing us some of the things they could do.

We had 2 tour guide, one was commentating and the other was taking photo's of the whales so they can gather as much information of them as they can. Apparently one of the whales has never been seen before so they had to take as many photo's as possible.

The way they tell whales apart from each other is the pattern on their tail, each whale has a different one just like our human fingerprint.