We were out of our sleeping bags by sunrise wanting to be the first group to the whale watching boats. Each small boat held ten people and was piloted by a trained boatman. Motoring the small skiffs within a few feet of the huge but gentle animals we were amazed to see their graceful movements as they emerged from the deep. We sited approximately thirty whales and by late February it is estimated that as many as two thousand of these gentle giants will be in the lagoon.
