Whales frolic off Bondi

Yahoo!7 June 29, 2009, 1:16 pm
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A pod of whales, believed to be humpbacks, has been putting on a show off the coast of Sydney this afternoon.

About 20 whales have been playing around off the coast of Bondi, in Sydney's east.

Humpbacks migrate north from Antarctica to warmer Australian waters during the winter months before heading south again during the spring.

Thousands of whales pass by Sydney Harbour every year on their way to give birth and mate in the waters off Queensland.

Humpbacks are baleen whales, possessing plates of hair-like structures used to sieve prey from water taken into the mouth.

They feed on krill and small schooling fish and can grow to a length of about 16m and weigh up to 40-45 tonnes.

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18 Comments

  1. Daral 06:54pm Monday 29th June 2009 EST Report Abuse

    Lioness1 well said, I'm with you

  2. lioness l 06:53pm Monday 29th June 2009 EST Report Abuse

    rp .. well said it the joke of the decade killing those wonderful creatures for science.. we all know its not true

  3. lioness l 06:50pm Monday 29th June 2009 EST Report Abuse

    leyla.. i come from a rich county and enjoy every piece of Australia, if u dont like it here go where u come from.. and Daral never said Australians are a race, we are people who welcome everyone which I cant say to many of other countries, when we visit we have to obey

  4. Daral 06:44pm Monday 29th June 2009 EST Report Abuse

    Hey Leyla, you are still here why if it's that bad

  5. Michelle 06:29pm Monday 29th June 2009 EST Report Abuse

    How awesome , if anything needs to be protected it's this . I want my grandbabies to be able to say they can see these magnifcent creatures and not on a DVD.

  6. Leyla 06:27pm Monday 29th June 2009 EST Report Abuse

    Daral- Australian is not a race....it's a country. Trust me. No one that is not from a 3rd world country would waste there time on this over priced, drought ridden culturally deprived piece of lunar landscape.

  7. Daral 06:26pm Monday 29th June 2009 EST Report Abuse

    BTW : IF YOU DON'T LIKE HERE IN AUSS GO BACK TO WHERE YOU COME FROM, and the whales are great, keep the japs away from them

  8. Daral 06:17pm Monday 29th June 2009 EST Report Abuse

    Why is it we aussies are the racist ones when other people come to our country and don't like the Australian way. AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE

  9. Leyla 06:03pm Monday 29th June 2009 EST Report Abuse

    Is it possible for you Aussies to say something that doesn't involve how much you hate or how "bad" some other nation or culture is compared to your racist little corner of the world?

  10. Alex 05:02pm Monday 29th June 2009 EST Report Abuse

    ...Yeah, cause they just swam in circles before! WTF? They're actually trying to escape the Wonthaggi desalination plant

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