Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Head of the Bight.  This is in South Australia, it is a great spot to view the Southern Right Whale.  The day we were there they counted 82 whales.  Between June and October each year the Southern Right Whales come into here to breed and give birth to the whale calves and stay for the 5 months.  From the viewing platform we got spectacular views of the coastline and were able to watch the whales display a variety of behaviours such as tail slapping, breaching, spy hopping and rolling belly up.  We were close enough to the whales as we could also hear them blowing through there blow hole.





Tail Slapping


Rolling Belly Up
 

Spy Hopping - they do this to look around

A Baby Albino Whale


Baby albino whale swam over the mother whale
and the mother whale lifted the baby out of the water


Breaching