Monday 8 September
Left Stanage Bay early in the morning for the run across the Marble Island. On the way, I saw the most amount of sea life for quite a while. The first was a group of whales heading south, they were a distance away but they were leaping just about completely out of the water. Then I noticed something close to me in the water so I motored over to investigate. It was a large whale with its tail stuck up out of the water and then a smaller one started to surface around it. The big one kept its tail up for a long time, 10 minutes or longer. Just when I thought, it was dead it rolled horizontal and had a number of big blows, and then it went to the strange position of its tail stuck up in the air. I wonder if it was a mother feeding her baby, who knows, I left them in piece. Saw tuna and other fish leaping out of the water. Marble Island along with several nearby islands is a cattle station, moored near the house and cattle yards. The wind came up so I shifted the a more protected spot on Hunter Island .I was going to head to the Percy Islands tomorrow but with winds increasing tomorrow i might spend the day around here. Finally had my red jew fish for dinner.