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Published: August 15th 2012
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Fraser Island Dingo
This dingo was wandering along the shoreline as the boat was passing. We have been very busy being tourists the last couple of days. No disasters, unless you count my mobile phone sim card stopping working. That was fixed with a visit to Telstra and a replacement card.
The weather has been lovely. There has been sunshine every day with a bit of wind on a couple of days. On one of the windy days, we went for a drive to Childers, north of Hervey Bay, on the way to Bundaberg. We were looking in the old chemist shop, which is pretty much a museum now, when one of the women suggested that we were from “down south”. Frank asked how she could tell. “Because you are wearing t-shirts”. They were both wearing jackets, and then put the heaters on for good measure! Funny what you get used to.
Yesterday we went exploring at Tin Can Bay with the intention of doing a bit of fishing. A bit of research, or even reading a tide chart, would have been handy. When the tide is out at Tin Can Bay, it is well and truly out. No water to be seen. All was not wasted, fish and chips on the foreshore with
Hello
Coming in for a good look the girls was good. It is a very pretty area, but would look better with water added.
As we are travelling with dogs, and want to go to Fraser Island for a couple of days, we had to organise a dog sitter. Fraser Island is a national park, therefore no dogs. A friend of our sons agreed to help us out, but we have had trouble catching up with him. As a back up plan, we decided to get the dogs their C5 injections in case they needed to go into a boarding kennel. When the vet checked Bubble over, she found what appears to be a tumour in her mouth. Bubble will have to see our own vet as soon as we get home. It turned out to be quite fortuitous that we couldn’t catch our sitter. It may have been untreatable by the next vet visit.
Today we went whale watching while a resident of the caravan park minded the girls. What an absolutely wonderful experience. We went out on The Spirit of Hervey Bay, a huge modern boat with five different viewing areas. We got close to three different whale groups. The first was a
Thar she blows
Humpback whales have two blowholes. When full grown, their lungs are the size of a car. very big, possibly female, humpback whale. She put on such a performance of breaching, tail slaps and pectoral fin slaps. She was magnificent. The next were a quite pare of juveniles and finally a very active pair of juveniles. They kept us moving from one end of the boat to the other. The last pair came right up to the boat and at one stage remained at the back on the surface for several minutes. It was so beautiful; we would like to go again for a repeat performance. Perhaps next week, if we can get a sitter, we will go again. If you ever get the opportunity, I strongly recommend it. I have included some video and images from the trip. Frank is responsible for the photos. I apologise for the video, I don't know how to edit it.
Tomorrow is time to move on to Burrum Heads for a week or so. We are looking forward to some serious fishing and a bit crabbing. On the subject of fishing and other challenges, we still haven’t caught anything and the dogs have shown no interest in their toys. There is still time.
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Alma van As
Lovely pictures!
Such amazing close up photos of the whales! Sorry to hear about Bubble and hope she recovers fully. Looking forward to reading more of your trip.