Whale watching was one of the things that I was afraid to do. It might sounds very funny and stupid to some people but frankly, I am just afraid of the deep sea. In a nut shell, I am not an adventurous person.
Anyway, when we were in Sydney, Australia, I was being convinced to go on a whale watching on a boat. I agree that whale watching is one of the few things in life that is worth doing. It is one of the most beautiful scene that I have ever seen. They are so big but looking at them that close gives you a feeling on how gentle these mammals are. They took away all my fears of the sea. They are not that easy to see. You have to really go all the way out into the deep sea to see them only if you are lucky. This is because during these whale watching trips, you are not 100% guaranteed that they might surface or appear before you. You might even do the whole trip and spend hours sailing out into the sea and come back without seeing any.
However, when we were there, we were lucky enough to catch a glimps of a whale. Well, to be exact, when we first sail out, the area whereby we should see some whale, we didn’t see any. We went about half hour up further into the open ocean and we finally see one. As you can see in the picture, when you see a whale surfacing, all watchers ran towards the front of the boat to snap photos.
At that time, we all on the boat had a pleasant surprise. After the first whale surfaced, about 5 minutes later, more whales started to surfaced in all directions. We also saw a mother whale with her little one swimming next to her. It was such a magnificent view.
During this specific whale watching trip, I had both good and bad experiences. The good thing is that I see it for myself how a giant can be so gentle and not afraid of human existence in their environment. The bad experience that I had was that right before I board the boat, I had a complete meal and while we were sailing into the open sea, I was throwing up like hell. So, as a warning to everyone, DO NOT EAT RIGHT BEFORE SAILING! I learned it the hard way (LOL)!
Another thing to me that is a very bad experience and it actually pisses me off was that while we were all sailing into the deep sea, some people were actually smoking on board the boat. Well, at least they were smoking in the open deck and I have no problem or have anything against smokers BUT the thing that I cannot accept, some of these smokers actually threw away their cigarette buds INTO THE SEA! I also saw that happening even when the whales were surfacing close to out boat.
On that note, whale watching was a big success and one of the few activities that’s worth doing. To all smokers, if you really have to smoke when on board a ship or boat, please, please, please, and I am begging you, not to throw cigarette buds into the water. Go buy yourself an ashtray, keep your cigarettes buds with you and throw it away in a rubbis bin when you reach land. If not, just smack yourself with a nicotine patch while you are on this kind of trips. Do us and yourself a favor and just enjoy……….. xoxo
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