Once in a life time! Does anyone have a photographic memory I can use for few moments to plant some visuals into the can't forget folder?

Out kiting yesterday evening Narabeen Sydney - strong wind , low surf, clear skies. It could not get better...... But it did suddenly realized I was not the only one making a bit of a splash: whales on the horizon. Couldn't let that opportunity go amiss kited out (at least 5 times further off shore than I have ever been before- a good two KM out) Cruising along on the board , with a couple of large humpback doing full breaches - spectacularly , gloriously and repeatedly- not 50 meters from where I was boarding. The sea was on my side today!

Now if you could just please lend me that photographic memory. I don't think I'll be seeing that again anytime soon.

Matthew.

tobes said...

Sweet!
recent estimates are that the population is over 10,000 from around 115 individuals when the last whaling station closed at Byron Bay in 1962.

So they're more like the proverbial rabbits than.. ahem... whales?

Watch the broken water DVD it has an amazing scene with whales in it, at the premiere the whole audience gasped when that scene flashed up, bloody incredible

Hey mate, Here's a shot from the beach in Dee Why on the day you were out. Probably one of the whales you were near.

Am so feeling your stoke Matt!!

A bunch of us kited all arvo yesterday near Port Macquarie with a few humpbacks playing around 200m from shore. They stayed nearby all day, and after we got out some little ones came in quiet close and starting flipping their tails at each other. Pretty cool session. Still smiling