Surfers Paradise as a City .... after we came back from the Whale Watching.

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Whale Watching .... The Actual Experience ..... We were several kilometres out to sea from Surfers Paradise .... see the photo below of the distant holiday highrise units along the coastline. The ocean was just gentle waves and a very dark blue water. The dark blue indicated great depth. The white boat slowly moves accross the surface in search of whales. There is a sense of expectancy with the forty or so people on the boat. Some are looking on water surface from the large covered back deck and about fifteen people are up on the front deck hanginging onto the chrome rail around the front deck ...... a higher lookout for sighting the whales. The captain and his crew are up behind on a third level, steering the boat and also looking for whales. The first sight of a whale is truly spectacular ..... to see an animal upwards of twenty metres in length, suddenly appeared out of the deep blue depths. It has been there all the time but we were not aware of it. It was perfectly developed for its watery environment. It was a single whale instead of being in pod of whales where two or three whales travel together. The whales have swum slowly down to Antartictica to feed in the winter time, then slowly made their slow journey back to subtropical water to breed. The freezing waters off Antarctica are the summer home for many whale species. While there, the whales feed on the rich supply of krill (small prawn-like animals). In autumn, as the temperature falls and ice starts to cover the sea, many of the large whale species begin a long and hard migration northward to the warm waters off the Australian coast. Humpback and southern right whales follow a similar route each year, and many females make the journey while pregnant so that they can give birth in Australian waters. The whales were Humpback whales (I am assuming the one we saw was not alone), having a stocky body with a broad head and long flippers up to one third of the total body length. The dorsal fin is small, often sitting on a 'hump' in the back. Knobby protuberances with bristle hair and often with barnacles growing on them, occur on the head, jaws and flippers. The lower jaw has a rounded projection near its tip. The rear margin of the tail flukes and the leading edge of the flippers are scalloped. See the website: http://www.abc.net.au/oceans/whale/type.htm The whale appeared out the blue and stayed around the boat for several hours..... it would surface on one side then go under the boat to reappear on the other side. Then it would be ahead of the boat, then to the right and then to the left and vice versus ..... you never knew where it was going to appear. Everyone was on tender hooks as they tried to sight the whale and get the best photographs with their silvery digital cameras hanging by their wrist cords. You would drop the camera in the ocean as you never see it again, so you had to be careful. It was especially difficult for me from my brain injury eleven years ago as my balance is quite out. Being up the front of the boat with many other people also looking out for whales, was a difficulty. There was initially a vertical swell from the sea going up and down, then a horizontal movement of people. All the people would move slowly to the left hand side of the boat to see if the whale would appear on the other side. That meant holding on to other people by the shoulder for steadiness ..... even though they were total strangers, they were very supportive. Then you would see the whale come sliding upwards out of the deep blue but turned upside down with its white belly showing. Then it would break the surface right side up for air, maybe slap the surface with its huge tale ..... then disappear into the depths again. See the photos below. Then the process would be repeated again but on the right side of the boat. People would move to the right hand side of the boat. Then the whale would appear on the surface then disappear again. The excitement of all the people at seeing the whale was very evident. The slow grace and ease which this HUGH animal moved through the water was very evident to all. To maintain that this animal happened from random mutations over millions of years through Evolution is a ludicrous idea. I along with many others, believe in a Special Creation from an infinite - personal God who created everything for its own a unique living space. The design of whales certainly shows this. This is a far more plausible source of origins then millions of years of chance. Most mutations today are not for further advancement of Evolution but are deleterious to the organism. The organism becomes more dysfunctional from its former state .... the reverse of Evolution. Scientists who ardently believe in the random chance theory do not tell you that. There two entirely different philosophical systems here at work: Those who believe in specific purposeful creation and intelligent design or those who will only accept a blind universe and everything happening by random chances. See the three websites: http://www.answersingenesis.org/ http://www.creationresearch.net/ http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3889 Just click on the website and it will open in a diffreny window. _________________________________

Whale Sightings .....

Houses on the Estuary: the houses and blocks of land start at A$1.50 million and go up to nearly A$12 million. People often have luxury boats or they fly around in helicopters for ease of transport. _______________________________________

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