It's now Sunday evening, October 19. We're at the Brisbane airport for an overnight flight to Taipei, then connecting to Shanghai. We flew from Sydney to Brisbane a week ago this morning, picked up a car and drove north to Hervey Bay, along the Fraser Coast of Queensland. Hervey Bay is beautifully situated with miles of sandy beach, and is famous as the home for thousands of humpback whales who migrate up to the warmer waters from Antarctica to mate, returning about 11 months later to birth their new offspring. We went out on a 6 hour boat trip to look for them. Saw a one or two day old newborn, already cavorting along. Also a whale mother fluke feeding, nursing the baby whale vertically upside down, evidently a quite unusual sight.
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| Humpback in Hervey Bay |
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| Mama Whale and Male Escort Whale Spouting |
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| Mama Whale Fluke-Feeding Baby Whale |
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| Newborn Whale In Early Breach |
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