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Heavy breathing of mammals’ amorous energy….. You can see the whales from shore – but hearing them is different, especially if they are wooshing past your feet as they chase, in hope, a girlfriend!

Whale of a time

On Albany Whale Tours ‘Sail-A-Way’, our guests’ feet are pretty close to the whales as they rush past our boat.  Yesterday, some didn’t rush – just mooched closeby us, making friends….but today!!!

Nine Humpbacks by Bald Head – and they were excited!  Accepting our stationary presence, they swooped, splashed and accelerated with amazing power as they played ‘teenage tag’ at water’s surface within metres of us, for an hour.  Albany……what an amazing wilderness!

Today’s guests loved it (see Visitor’s Feedback and Comments on website www.albanywhaletours.com.au) and, of course, some are using our gift of a free return within the next fortnight.  Good for Albany!  Good for us!

Thirty three passengers, floating….. still….. in Princess Royal Harbour channel yesterday morning.  Some may have been on board ‘Sail-A-Way’ as a result of your recommendation:  thank you.

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Hi Everyone

No whale information for a month…too long…SORRY!  Still finding the ‘right’ words is difficult.

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GWN Will be at the new Jetty at the Albany Peace Park at  9 am Tuesday 31st August, 2010
Please come and voice your concerns about the neglect of this Whale who has been stuck on a sand bar since Friday 20th  that is
10 days to long!

G’day Everyone

Saturday 14th:  In the morning; 37 passengers, watching twelve Southern Right Whales moving in pairs very slowly, quietly waiting it seems, hushed humans on all Middleton Beach and Boardwalk lookouts, hushed humans on boats.

In the afternoon:  27 passengers floating still and silent.  Sail-A-Way on a leaden ocean – no wind – no waves – no sun – no sound – and all around Southern Rights drifting closer and closer to our yacht and its people.

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Hi Everyone

Finding whales was not the problem – obeying the law…keeping 100 metres clearance zones was impossible!  The whales wanted Albany’s human company.  At Ellen Cove and Middleton Beach, human land-watchers were watched by whales…floating by…watching them!….interrupting curious glances while caressing their fellow whale companions with tails and flippers….sometimes breaching…seemingly just for fun…and as our boat lay inert…they’d drift over to ‘take a look’ before…more whale caressing, tail caressing, flipper fondling loveliness.  Thirty mesmerized silent people on ‘Sail-A-Way’.
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Hi Everyone

31 July, 9.30 am.

Grey-black, glistening surface water of Princess Royal Harbour….two black humped shapes metres apart, breaking the glisten, making barely a ripple….only the still wraith-mist of their breath hanging in the still air….300 metres away, on the other side of the channel….5 Southern Rights absolutely different, absolute fascinating.
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Hi Everyone

I thought I would give you a precis of the wonderful recent sightings we have had.

For the past three days I have left “Sail-A-Way” saying “that was the best whale sighting I have ever had….breaching, tail-slapping, close-up encounters, and whales, whales, whales…everywhere!

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Hi Everyone

Yesterday a Southern Right became very curious about our “Sail-A-Way”…just outside the channel by the lookout.  My guests loved its curiosity and gentle sighs as it responded to our music.  I thought of the shore-bound watchers and wondered if our information could help them get past their fears of sea-sickness.
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Hi Everyone

We had a wonderful day of whale watching yesterday.  Our guests so enjoyed it I thought I would let them tell you about it.
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