The Best Family Holiday Ever!

It’s July and it’s school holidays! Time to get out and have some fun.

Off we went and we sure did make the most of it. Some glorious weather greeted us and the reef was truly our playground. We had more interactions with humpback whales than we have ever had before and we even managed to convert 2 of our youngest guests to the wonders that are humpback whales.

Cruising along the outside of the reef under sail we had to keep a good look out because the weather was so good that all the whales seemed to be resting and catching some shut eye before they continued all the way north to Broome. We must have encountered at least 7 different whales that were resting and just motionless at the surface. We didn’t want to disturb them though and we didn’t have to because there was a constant stream of whales coming up from southern waters.

We managed to get some great images and David, our guest on board, got some great shots of one whale breaching. We have never seen a whale breaching so many times, it must have breached no less than 50 times as it moved north along the reef and that was what we saw. When we decided it was time for us to head back into the reef it was still breaching as it continued north.

It was a great few days which seemed to bring highlight after highlight, as David wrote in our guest book...

“Well what can I say, fantastic catamaran, great snorkeling, awesome whale watching, outstanding meals, and that was just the first afternoon…It could not have been better, one of our most memorable holiday trips ever!...p.s. since writing this I’ve just had a swim with Manta Rays and another with Grey Reef Sharks…simply amazing end to the trip!”

Well I think David said it all, and thankyou to David for his kind comments.

Don’t you wish you were here?

You can see some of the images we captured on that trip at our Humpback Whale Photo Gallery