2 weeks in Hervey Bay with the whales
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> Wooooooooowwwwww Ive just spent 2 weeks in Hervey Bay with the whales.
> what an amazing experience. Everyday more whales just wanting to connect.
>
> I have now made 5x 7 minute documenteries that I have posted on my
> website from this boat floating in Hervey Bay over the last 2 weeks and
> invite people to veiw and enjoy with me the bliss many have already felt
> with the whales. see www.flightofthehumpback.org While your on
> the site take some time to write or send a form letter to the japanese
> ambasidor or the ceo of Sony Toyota or Mitsubishi and expess what you
> feel about Japan killing whales. Can you pass my website address and
> this email on to people you feel may want to help the whales and
> dolphins. www.flightofthehumpback.org I have 4 more weeks to
> come in Hervey bay so stay tuned. More clips whale songs and ritual
planned.
>
> Also sep 20 is International day to Protest the Dolphin Slaughter by
> Japan Day, September 20th, 2006: More info below. There is a form letter
> on my site for this too. Last year we did an action at the japanes
> consulate in brisbane. Terri from the gold coast is organising another
> demo .If you want to go,email her on tmelloway@ozemail.com.au and
> express your interest. I may b e doing a demo in Hervey Bay.
>
> Also "the gathering" docco is on ABC from 15/9/06 about Bunna Lawrie
> and the
> story of his reconnection with the dreaming and the whales. The film is
> changing the lives all who view it.
>
> The Australian TV Premiere of "The Gathering" 3-part series begins 6pm
>
> Friday 15th Sept, then consecutive Fridays, 22nd & 29th Sept.
>
>
> Story from Hervey Bay
>
> Whales are very much part of our life around Byron Bay. After whaling
> stopped in 1961 the whales have been coming in closer and interacting
> with humans more. The same story is echoed at many place that whales
> pass or visit. In Hervey Bay where Humpback whales stop for a month or
> two to play, mate, rest and fatten their babies everyone says that each
> year there is better and better interaction happening between whales and
> humans. Humans killing whales has become just a story the elders tell
> their offspring or maybe its just a distant memory in the few old ones
> that servived the slaughter years. And now as early as December 2006 we
> return to those slaughter years. Japan intends to kill up to 50 of these
> magestic creatures every year. No doubt this will increase the gap and
> lose the trust that has been built between whales and humans over the
> last 45 years. As I experience this trust first hand from a friends boat
> in Hervey Bay I feel the tradgedy this renewed killing will have on the
> whales and I lament on the lost this will be for all humans that
> presently get so much soul food from feeling the whales close up. One
> day a large humpback came up from under the boat bearing its white under
> belly with its plectral fins wide open. Would this same whale do the
> same next year if it had to spend the summer dodging Japanese harpoons
> and hearing there family exploding and screeming into death. I fear not.
>
> I have now made 5x 7 minute documenteries that I have posted on my
> website from this boat floating in Hervey Bay over the last 2 weeks and
> invite people to veiw and enjoy with me the bliss many have already felt
> with the whales. While your on the site take some time to write or send
> a form letter to the japanese ambasidor or the ceo of Sony Toyota or
> Mitsubishi and expess what you feel about Japan killing whales.
>
> Some whales are already leaving Hervey Bay and starting their long
> southern migration. I hope they dont become the victom of humanities
> stupidity and that this was the last year ever we were able to get close
> up and personal with the whales.