We were up and about quite early this morning, because we'd booked to go out on a Whale Watching Cruise. We had some breakfast and then headed out into the sunshine. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and it seemed like a perfect day to be going out on a boat.
Our boat set sail at just after 11am and there was about 12 of us onboard, which was nice because it meant there was plenty of room for everyone to get up and walk about. After sailing along the coast for a few minutes, we headed out to sea and within minutes we spotted 3 Humpback Whales. When we were about 100 meters away (which is the legal requirement) the captain switched off the main engines and we were just able to coast alongside them. We followed them for about an hour and found that they were on their way to meet another couple of whales, but we didn't get that close to them - we decided to leave them all alone and head back to shore.
We spent this afternoon exploring Port Macquarie and looking in all the shops. The weather was so good that when we went back to our hostel for lunch, we collected the jumpers we'd bought in New Zealand (along with Nikki's coat) and gave them away to charity - hopefully it's just gonna get warmer and warmer from now on!
This evening Nikki made us another chilli for our tea, (which was loads spicier than last night), and we sat down with our new film friend (we don't even know his name) and watched 'The Rock' and 'Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels'... brilliant!
It was great to see the whales in the wild - but they didn't do as many tricks as the ones at SeaWorld!
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