25/8/09 - 17.30.1S 149.45.70W - Whale day

Flying Cloud
Julian Nichols
Sat 29 Aug 2009 05:48
The girls spent the day enjoying the Sofitel on Moorea, including the Spa, whilst the boys were supposed to be busy sailing Flying Cloud to meet them.

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Of course the two fish spent most of the day in the pool.

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For the boys the sail had gone so well that by lunchtime Flying Cloud was not far off of Moorea - but then the distraction happened. Big wonderful whales - 5 of them in two pods. And so far nearly 3 hours we became a whale watching boat.

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This one started an incredibly close approach to the boat....

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And that's when i got the idea of jumping in to swim with them....

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One diver off the boat and swimming to the whale - somewhat nervously!

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A quick tow behind the boat for redelivery into the whale pod (yes i did begin to think i was shark bait).

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And then it happened. One of them breached next to me - yes i'm the potentially squashed light colored blob in the water.

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These whales were amazing.

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the video may not be BBC but it was pretty cool!

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and wanted to show us why Moorea was home of the whale and most of the written whale stories.

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When we did pull into the Sofitel to meet up with the girls it was dance time.

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