A Plea for a Whale
On 13 September 1992, while conducting humpback whale research in Hervey Bay for the Pacific Whale Foundation and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, I got word there was an all-white humpback whale out in Platypus Bay, along the west side of Fraser Island. My research assistants and I went to the area to see the most amazing whale I have seen in 25 years of studying them - a pure white whale, approximately 13 meters long, with pectoral fins stretched 5 meters out to either side of its body.
