Acrylic on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

Witness the humpback migration this year - it stops you in your tracks, and leaves you spell bound. While listening to our local ABC I heard that watchers have been busy counting whales from vantage points up and down the coast of NSW, from Port Macquarie, to Cape Byron and to Bass Point on the South Coast. In one day watchers from Port Macquarie tallied in excess of 1000 whales, and the grand total yesterday was above 5000. The count for the same day last year was less, about 3000 plus. In recent times there have been more people coming out to count whales at 82 separate locations.

Yesterday, I estimated to have seen about 30 humpbacks moving north. One leapt clear of the water revealing it’s round banana shaped body while another emerged vertically from the ocean. Others just swam by merrily, missing a few tourist and fishing boats, and a single kayaker. This painting records the excitement of the moment as a humpback breached within our range of vision just offshore in the vicinity of Boulder Beach, Lennox Head. This artwork is the first in a series of paintings that record the ecstasy of such amazing moments of marine migration.

To view them and even hear their calls is an experience you don’t forget, as you begin to wonder about their receptive and communicative resonance, reminding us yet again of a powerful Designer and Creator - of creatures great and small.

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