"When you are having fun" and it certainly does, after the fantastic experience of seeing Whales at close hand from a boat I thought in my infinite wisdom that it would be a great idea if we went up in a Helicopter to see what these magnificent creatures looked like from the sky, so i went to see this guy called Tim who is the local pilot working out of Merimbula, Tim said he could only take two at a time and so I thought that sounded great! the whole "shabang" to ourselves, come the morning Tim rang to say that Whales had been spotted in the bay and here we go! as soon as we got to the airstrip I realised why Tim had said he could only take two, the Helicopter was about the size of a small sidecar! we (Mike and I) climbed in, got the safety drill and off we went! the views from this tiny little capsule were stunning! we found only one whale(a large female) the rest seemed to have "sounded" but I managed to get some great photos of the area including a couple of "the clearing" on the way back!

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