Whale holiday (part three)

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I’m using the new ‘embed’ function in Google Maps, to give you guys an idea of where I was at for a week.
The dark polygon approximately outlines the research area.
We dropped anchor in the evenings and spent the nights nestled up against the protective curve of the island, and ranged all over the study area during the days.
Click on either of the two ‘pins’ and a video should open out showing you the view from that spot.
The sunset video was taken on the last night. There is a deep underwater trough which the whales use to exit the bay.



You should also be able to zoom in and out, and scroll around inside the ‘embed.’

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Click on the pins to see the videos





Hervey Bay is a sheltered, shallow bay formed between the Queensland coast and Fraser Island 60 nautical miles below the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef.
On the northern migration along the eastern coastline of Australia humpbacks round Byron Bay, the most
easterly point, and then travel past the Gold Coast, Stradbroke Island, Morton Island off Brisbane and Fraser Island.
At Fraser Island the humpbacks bypass Hervey Bay and disperse widely up into the shallow lagoons of the Great Barrier Reef.
During the southern migration humpbacks divert dramatically to the west of the migratory pathway to travel into and out of, the eastern side of Hervey Bay from the north. On leaving Hervey Bay they travel north around the Great Sandy spit, then east across the top of Fraser Island before turning south to continue their southern migration past Byron Bay and Ballina.
LINKS
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http://www.oceania.org.au

Comments

  1. Geology ByotchSeptember 7, 2007 at 5:25 AM

    [this is good] Wow...I have also seen humbacks from a small boat...exhilarating! You got some great footage, whereas I only achieved some pathetic shots of a splacsh after they'd gone back under. I LOVE the roll. Are these young males?

    F*ck the Japanese whaling industry. They kill more whales than everyone else put together BY FAR, around 700 to 800 a year in one trip, and they claim its for scientific research, which is a loophole in the global moratorium. They then boldly sell the meat for food. They also eat raw horse, by the way, in case anyone cares about that.

    I shall repost a May or June post I wrote on this. You have inspired me.

    We should start a consumer boycott on anything Japanese, including cars. Damnit. Money talks.

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  2. lesartSeptember 7, 2007 at 3:44 PM

    Hi Dave,

    What a fantastic post, thank you and I admire the way you embrace technology and try out all the new "internet" gadgets.  Well done. Looks like you had a "whale of a time"! ... sorry, couldn't resist it.

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  3. DaveTSeptember 10, 2007 at 4:59 PM

    LOL, 'whale of a time'
    That's comedy gold! ;-)

    Thanks for the comment. I'm thinking of doing another one for an APEC item I'm working up.

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  4. Geology ByotchSeptember 20, 2007 at 4:57 PM

    oceana.org! I support them with donations! alriiight...what a coincidence!

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  5. DaveTSeptember 22, 2007 at 1:43 PM

    Nice one :-)
    They are very committed to what they do.

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