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Published: August 10th 2014
Fowlers Bay
Leaving the Head of Bight after another great day of whale watching, we were still on a high. I now have over 400 photos of whales!(got to love digital!).
Turning east on the Eyre Hwy we aimed to camp somewhere off the road after we cleared Yallata Land and found a spot about 20klm before Nundroo Roadhouse which was perfect. That night we celebrated the Southern Right Whales with a good red around the fire.
After a leisurely start we turned into Nundroo for a coffee (V ordinary!) and met up with some fellow travellers who had just left Fowlers Bay and asked if we were going in there…”No” was our answer, “although we love the place it was not on our agenda this trip”. “But the whales are in there and for $80 you can go out on a boat for two hours and get up close and personal” they say. Well as they say in the classics that was the end of that, off to Fowlers Bay we went!
I will not go into a lot of detail about Fowlers Bay here but I will refer you to a previous Blog of ours
for more info (MikeandTrishV.FowlersBay).
An amazing small community forever under threat from the encroaching sand dunes, this little spot is known for fishing, the Fowlers Bay Conservation Park and Wahgunyah Conservation Reserve. The Caravan Park here is friendly and social and although it has not changed much since our last visit, there are plans a foot (apparently) to expand into the vacant land next door…look out, this sleepy little secret may be getting out! I am still amazed standing in the street looking at the massive sand dunes behind the street and the few houses that the place has not been engulfed again, the original town did disappear under the shifting sands. Anyway when we checked in we asked when the next boat trip to see the whales was going out expecting the answer to be “tomorrow”, but we were surprised to hear instead “in 40 minutes and we have two spots left”. “They will be ours” says Trish. So I quickly go and unhitch the Trakkie and park the Troll and grab my camera and then it is off to the jetty to catch our ride.
Rod and Simeon Keogh who had recently purchased the caravan park
Fowlers Eco Whale Tours
We had company on the way outwhen we were here last, now have a 5 mtr (?) boat registered to take tours whale watching and it was this boat we went out on with 3 others. I don’t think I can best describe the next 2 ½ hours so I will let the pictures do it for you all. However, for me personally, this was when I witnessed, felt and experienced the most amazing feelings as I watched for around 15 minutes (it felt like forever) a mother and calf interacting. The mother was rolling around and over on her back as the calf literally muzzled and ‘crawled’ all over her. I felt the amazing bond between the two and you could literally see the love between the two. The calf was playful and boisterous, the Mother watchful, careful, protective and loving….I was awestruck at witnessing this amazingly strong bond between them. Yes, I have photos and a couple are posted here but the air was full (for me) of this amazing aura, strength and bond. Yes, I was shocked at how it affected me and the memory will live with me for a long time, what an incredible experience.
Not sure what
Fowlers Bay
Putting on a show for us. else to say here, but even out of whale season this little town is a great diversion off the Eyre Hwy and well worth the extra few Kilometres and they do a great whiting and chips at the café. How grateful we are that we were talked into going to Fowlers for the Fowlers Eco Experience (
www.fowlerseco.com). Total whale photos for trip now in excess of 600, hope I get at least a couple out of them all!
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Wendy
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Just discovered your blog site
As said, just found, and have already spent hours reading from the beginning. Long way to go yet. We had a Trakkie very similar to yours - one of the early ones. Our first trip with it lasted 3 years. From 1998-2012, we towed it some 120,000kms, and lived in it for something like a total of over 8 years. Health dictated change of vehicle - now a Coaster bus. So I am finding the blog fascinating - so many similar experiences in the same places.