On Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:54 PM, Viv (aka Krazy Kiwi) wrote:
(snip)
> The Cheynes III is an old whaler that was deliberately sunk around 20
years
> ago.  Broken up a tad in places due to being situated in an area where she
> gets hammered a fair bit during the summer perioda she still has a lot of
> interesting growth on her.  The first thing I noticed when I hit the water
> was how loud the whale calls were.  I know they would have been miles away
> from our dive site but you would swear they are only 500 metres or so
> away.  I could hear 2 distinct whale songs .. from the humpback (quite a
> high pitch) and the pygmy blue whale (quite a low dull sound similar to
> hearing a submarine going at a fair distance).  Having just attended a
> whale watching conference a few weeks ago I was very interested in the
> pygmy blue whale presentation.  The presenters had just completed a 3 year
> study on the pygmy blue whales of Western OZ. Originally thinking we only
> had blue whales on our coastline they were surprised to discover we had
our
> own pygmy blue whales and their photo ids of each is nearly in the 600
> number range so it is very good news indeed that their numbers are growing
> year by year for our whale watching charters.

G'Day, my luvverly.  What a wonderful experience to hear whale songs - and
what a great trip report.  It sounds as though you had an absolute ball!
:-)

Strike