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Humpback whale swimming tours set to begin off WA's Ningaloo coast - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation):

Tours giving people the chance to swim with humpback whales are to be trialled in Western Australia next year after the success of a similar program with whale sharks at Ningaloo Marine Park.
The trial will give people the opportunity to get up close with humpback whales at Coral Bay and Exmouth, Environment Minister Albert Jacob announced.
Tours allowing people to swim with humpback whales are hard to come by, with only a handful of places offering the experience.
"It's very rare," Mr Jacob said.
"I'm only aware of three other jurisdictions that offer it — Mexico, Tonga and Queensland are the ones I know of."
The tours in Queensland are being offered for a second year.
The humpback whale was previously an endangered species on the West Australian coast, but Mr Jacob said since the end of commercial whaling in the 1960s, conservation efforts had left the mammal's population in the area at around 30,000.
"The WA population has recovered better than any other humpback whale population in the world," Mr Jacob said.
"It's one of the real conservation success stories of WA with the species now fully recovered."'via Blog this'

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