{"id":1912,"date":"2014-07-06T21:02:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T11:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2015-10-08T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T04:27:06","slug":"whale-dreamers-festival-2014-simply-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/?p=1912","title":{"rendered":"Whale Dreamers Festival 2014 – Simply Magic!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0perfect day!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Norah Head Lighthouse<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Sunday 6th July dawned to another stunningly beautiful winters day. Calm, warm, blue skies, a delight. Not sure how the team do it but I’m\u00a0definitely not going to argue with the magic. Its become my\u00a0favourite whale event of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Norah Head Lighthouse<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0The Humpbacks are often kilometres out to sea as they migrate past Sydney but here at Norah Head they are very close to the coast. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

It was announced during the ‘Welcome to Country’<\/em> that a beloved indigenous elder had recently passed away and they were shaw she would be with us\u00a0in spirit today. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Welcome to Country ceremony and dancers<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Ten minutes later a rare Southern Right Whale turned up in the bay below the lighthouse and stayed all day! WOW<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Southern Right Whale in the bay below the lighthouse<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0…then a large pod of dolphins came to play.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bottlenose Dolphin<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

So the stage was set, dolphins playing in the surf, a Southern Right playing in the bay and a constant parade of Humpback passing by, oh and a whole bunch of spellbound humans dancing and celebrating the whales next to the lighthouse.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The AWESOME Nikki, Collette, Jeannie and Roberta organisers of the Festival<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0A simply fantastic and soul restoring day!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Drumming in the whales<\/p><\/div>\n

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Picking up a snazzy Sea Shepherd T Shirt<\/p><\/div>\n

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The view from the top<\/p><\/div>\n

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Soaking up the lovely day, music, great food and whales<\/p><\/div>\n

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A\u00a0perfect day! Sunday 6th July dawned to another stunningly beautiful winters day. Calm, warm, blue skies, a delight. Not sure how the team do it but I’m\u00a0definitely not going to argue with the magic. Its become my\u00a0favourite whale event of the year. \u00a0The Humpbacks are often kilometres out to sea as they migrate past Sydney […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whale-festivals","category-whale-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}