The babies
have arrived!!!
Yes, it's
getting to the really exciting part of the whale watching season
when the Mother Humpback Whales start to come into the sheltered
waters of Hervey Bay with their newborn calves. The main photo this
week is a Humpback Whale Mother & Calf taken last year with
Quick Cat 2's underwater colour video camera.
The baby
whales are born up in the warm shallow waters of the Great Barrier
Reef, when they are born the humpback whale doesn't have a
protective layer of blubber to keep it warm and buoyant, which is
the whole reason that these magnificent creatures migrate thousands
of kilometres from the cold Antarctic ocean every winter. A few
stats on a baby humpback at birth it can weigh between 800-1000kg
and be 3.5 to 4.5m in length, it will drink hundreds of litres of
super nutricius milk (about 35% fat...no skim here) until
weaned after about 12 months.
This weeks
Question: What
is the name of the bay on the north west side of Fraser Island that
whales are found? the answer isn't Hervey Bay.... Prize
this week is a bottle of the newly released 2002 Chardonnay from
Robinson Wines @ The Noosa Valley Winery.
Last
weeks winners Q.What
