The last few days the whales have been pulling out all the stops right here in front of Sea Foever. When I told our son in London about the half hour of tail splashing, spy hopping,fin waving and rollovers I had been watching he said”Oh yes, that’s the routine Cape Tourism have asked them to put on for the visitors – they have to practice the whole thing from time to time.” And they did indeed seem to be going through all the manouvers shown in the display boards available for visitors at the “whale viewing sites”. Our is not an offical site but I have never had a better sighting of whales anywhere.
Yesterday they woke me at 5am with their heavy breathing – or maybe that is their normal breathing? but they were so close in and the air was so still that this awesome sound was reverberating through the whole neigbourhood.
At first I thought perhaps it was a whale giving birth – something I was privelegedc to watch from our deck a few years ago but then realised there was not the same bellowing I had heard that time or quite the same thrashing about in the water. They seeemed very tranquil. Today they were again up and about very early but more active with lots of rolling and splashing -mating perhaps? The world of the whale remains largely mysterious to a land locked being like myself.
Diane
