Tahenea - Whales 16:57.3S 144:34.9W
Pacific Bliss
Colin Price
Mon 15 Aug 2011 06:55
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Humpback whales inside
Tahenea lagoon
Wow !
 We saw two humpback whales
breaching simultaneaously, but nobody had a camera ready enough to capture
it. They were probably invovled in a two whale 'heat run' as part of
the mating ritual. There are normally more whales around, but maybe not in
the lagoon. Alternatively they could just
be jumping out of the water to clean lice from themselves.
 Creeping closer... we moved towards
them... it was probably the sound of the outboards that made the whales
move on into the lagoon, just blowing and lifting their tails gracefully as they
went.
Pictures by Hamish of s/v
Seal
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