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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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.

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.

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Another kid from the audience was picked to play ball with an Australian sea lion named Cindy. Cindy is one of the show’s main attractions, she is a fast learner, highly intelligent, and had appeared in many TV commercial (2009, Lotto TV commercial).

It started off with the kid throwing the ball towards Cindy, while Cindy will use her nose to tap on the ball to pass it back to the kid. Perhaps Cindy was tapping a bit too quickly for the kid to react, and the ball ended up hitting on the kid’s head. You could see the kid’s hands were out, expecting to catch the ball, but only to get hit on the head instead. It was hilarious to watch and everyone from the audience had a good laugh.

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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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