Whale watch tour, Byron Bay
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Thursday morning I woke up at 8 to do a Whale watch tour with Byron Bay Dive Centre. I had to be there at 9 and when I went in at 8:45 it was already full of people. I filled in a form and waited till Rob told us what to do. He divided the group in two, 8 persons a boat. My boat captain was Rob and his assistant Louis and they prepared us for the whale watch tour. First they gave us a jacket for on the boat and after we had to sit down in the garden of the dive centre to get a briefing before leaving. They told us what we were going to see and some safety drills. After this we all went in jeeps to go to the beach.
On the beach they told us how to get in the boat and after everybody was set Rob drove us to open sea. After a couple of minutes he stops to explain a bit more about the Bay and about the whales we were searching for.
During the talk we saw a breath of a whale so we dropped the nous direction the whales and hoped they would show up again. This whole game repeated itself a couple of times before we saw a whale jumping a 100 meter away from us. The next two whales were coming to us and we waited a couple of minutes for them till they showed up 10 meters from the boat and scared us with their huge bodies. They went down under the boat which gave us a perfect view on how big these fishes are.
On the way back we went to Jullian Rock to spot some sea turtles and after that it was time to go back to the bay because they had to pick up a new group. I had seen some whales before but never so close, so it was definitely worth it and a great experience to me. If you feel like whale watching, just go to the MAD travel shop in the Arts Factory Backpackers lodge and book one of the whale watch tours in Byron Bay.
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