Wishing you were here
Posted by Ray @ 5:27 pm(Long-ish post. To compensate for the gobs of text, there will be purty pictures.)
Spent the last 6D/5N on a trip to Hervey Bay and Fraser Island. I’ll skip the beautiful lookout from the Glasshouse Mountains, because pretty as they were, they’re nothing compared to…
Whale-watching
Every year, thousands of Southern Humpback whales migrate north from the cold waters of Antarctica to give birth to their young in warmer climates. They stay down there because of an abundance of their food supply, but they come up to give birth because their young have not had time to develop the thick layer of blubber necessary to survive the freezing waters near the south pole.
On their way back south, they often take a pit-stop at Platypus Bay, an area that’s protected by Fraser Island to the east, and the Australian mainland to the west and south. There, boat operators take people like me right up to these giant, acrobatic creatures as they frolick and play in the shallow, warm waters of the bay.
And oh, how they play!