I was having night panics about dolphins last night! And thinking about how they had gotten their scars!! What was in the water with me?!!!
But in the morning I got up slowly and then went to the beach. I'd not been to it yet so it was nice. The beach itself was not the nicest as it was very pebbly and dark but I found an ok part where the pebbles were small. I could see the birds (shags maybe) sunning themselves and holding their wings out to dry. It was cool but I kept missing them on my camera! It was Asliye's birthday today so I wrote her a birthday message in the pebbles with a cool backdrop and sent it to her.
I then went to the whale watching place and got on the catermaran! It was a much bigger boat than yesterday with really nice seats. Thankfully the seas were almost flat, but the weather was very cloudy. It was explained how this the ibly place in the world where you can see sperm whales so close to land. The reason being is that the Ocean shelf is very close to the shore here and the right mixture of warm and cold water currents provides the perfect conditions for a lot of sea life which can support the whole food chain. We were told how the orca was at the top of the food chain, made me very scared about my swim yesterday! On the way out to the whale's hunting ground we saw a couple of blue sharks and lots of fur seals floating on their backs with their flippers in the air. So funny. The sharks, not so funny! They were probably only about a metre long and I had never heard of them before.
We came to a spot where the whales had been seen earlier in the day and we looked out for them and the crew listened under the water. One was spotted up a head and we raced over to it. He dived just before we reached it unfortunately. We headed off in the hunt for another and we saw one surface!! It was so cool! The boat sided up to him so we could all get a good view. It looked really small as we were ibly seeing such a small part of it. It was amazing to watching it blow out of its blowhole. As the dag was so grey and the whale was grey the photos are not so impressive.
Watching him dive for the next hunt was great. Some great tail action!!
The hunt continued for the next one and we were lucky enough to spot a second whale. This time I remembered to do a selfie!!
Great day!! So funny how the photos look like a totally different place to yesterday's turquoise ones!
After this I took a look in the shops and bought some souvenirs. Insight mum a tea towel, I'm all for useful gifts and some paua shells. I think I like my found one best though :)
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