First Trip To Coffs Harbour This journal contains a selection of photos taken during my first trip to Coffs Harbour, a regional city located at the east coast of Australia, in the northern part of New South Wales.

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As the mother humpback whale dived back into the sea, the incredibly loud noise and the enormous amount of splashes made, gave me a physical sense of the sheer immensity of their size and weight. This happened so close to our cruise, it was almost as if I could reach out for the splashes with my hand.

After the calf had performed a few full breaches, the mother humpback whale did hers. It happened only a few hundred metres away from our cruise. It was spectacular to watch. You can hear everyone on the cruise were cheering and enjoying this spectacle in awe. With this full breach, the mother whale had landed on her back. I thought that how a full breach is normally performed by humpback whales.

We humans tend to anthropomorphise, and this tendency of ours gave me the thought, that after how the mother whale saw her own calf do a few full breaches, she performed hers right after, as to demonstrate how a full breach should be done.

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After our whale watching cruise, we went to a place called Pet Porpoise Pool to have another close encounter with a different type of marine mammal. In the show, one kid from the audience was given the task of brushing one of the dolphins’ mouths. Not only I could see the happiness on the kid’s face, I could also see the concentration in his eyes. He really was trying to give the dolphin a good brush of its mouth.

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First Trip To Coffs Harbour This journal contains a selection of photos taken during my first trip to Coffs Harbour, a regional city located at the east coast of Australia, in the northern part of New South Wales.

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