This weekend is the official start of the snow season in Australia - and as you can see the weather was typically appalling. Monday is also a public holiday - in honour of the Queens Birthday no less. So we headed off to Flinders on the Mornington Peninsular. This is a local area we have not explored much, we have tended to spend more time on the other side of the bay.
The weather was great, we saw whales on two different occasions - they we rather along way of shore and we also saw albatross. For some reason the general public seemed more interested in the whales than the albatross! Although I did try to point them out to a few people.
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| Flinders = |
The wide-angle image is of the pier at Flinders and the whale and albatross are the best I could manage given that these wonderful animals were a long way away!
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| Southern Right Whale (?) |
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| Shy Albatross (?) |
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Enjoy the pictures.
Wow...Holiday Feelings :))))
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see either. Summer jus!t started here, it has been in the triple didgits for a week
ReplyDeleteHI Stewart Lovely to see whale adn Albatross at sea. I once did a Pelagic trip from Woolingong and they brought Albatrosses on board to ring them etc. wonderful experience.MArgaret
ReplyDeleteThat wide angle shot is superb!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots Stewart.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see the tail of the whale.
Regards, Irma
Wish our winters - or even our summers - were like this. Just lovely!
ReplyDeleteawesome views!
ReplyDeleteOh WOW...now that's a view I could look at all day long.
ReplyDeleteYour wide angle looks like a postcard ... beautiful. Should use it on your Christmas cards.
ReplyDeleteI am so envious that you saw whales. Do you know what kind they were? I once went on a boat tour to see the Orca in Washington, but there were none to be seen. Then in the paper the next day they had pictures of them. It seems we didn't see them because they were in the Bay right where we were staying ... Argh! And the Albatross are wonderful and endangered at this point. They are being killed by the garbage (plastics mostly) that we wonderful humans dump in our oceans. I would have shared your awe over them, had I been there. Great post, Stewart.
Andrea @ From The Sol
Whales and albatrosses...could winter be any more cruel ;>)...(that top picture looks like the kind of winter I want to have always...no snow for me thank you very much.)
ReplyDeleteSuperb captures for the day, Stewart!! Hope you have a great week!!
ReplyDeleteI would love to see an albatross.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots Stewart!!I have'nt see Whales in our area!!Lucky you!!!
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely week!!
Dimi..
Sounds like an awesome time, Stewart! Whale watching and birding, both would make me happy. Great sighting and photos.
ReplyDeleteNice captures, Stewart!
ReplyDeleteThat is so much blue! Lovely!
ReplyDeleteI've been on whale watching excursions off of Hawaii, and watched & watched along our northwest / Pacific Coast during prime migrating season.. but I've never seen a whale!
ReplyDeleteThe albatross is cool, too. :)
yep - looks like the snow season!
ReplyDeleteHave a great week.
And what a view!
ReplyDeleteGreat view!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
ReplyDeleteVery nice! I remember the first time an albatross flew close to me. I was amazing at how huge the wing span was. I don't think he moved a wing for at least a minute or so.
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