October 23, 2012
Towed gently from my latent moorings by the nurturing goodwill of the universe, I arrived this afternoon high on a hill above Whirlpool Reach, on the majestic Tamar River in Northern Tasmania.
Greeted warmly by two great friends with binoculars glued firmly to their faces, I assumed they were perusing activities of the nearby site of the now informally redundant, yet still proposed behemoth, the Longreach pulp mill.
Surprise was mine to relish at the sight of two whales casually moving through the steady flow of water that passes daily under the Batman Bridge.
Perhaps these awesome creatures were here as a symbolic gesture to bid final farewell to what was to be one of the largest forest digesters on planet earth?
Perhaps a sense of relief washed over them rather than the billions of litres of effluent that was to be dumped into Bass Strait?
Here they were for me, blissfully for around half an hour…….so here you too can appreciate these superb mammals.
DaveXXX
