The name Younga, means mother in local language of the Gia and Ngaro people of the Whitsundays.
The sea people of the Whitsundays, the Ngaro People, have been watching over humpback whales while they are calving in the protection of the islands, for over 9,000 years.
The Ngaro people have a strong cultural connection to land, sea and country. The whales have significance as totemic ancestors. The Ngaro have creation stories that indicate the whales have been here since their creation spirits formed the islands snd people. They would often observe humpback whales which they incorporated into song.
Younga has been sighted and identified four times over six years along the Australian East Coast by submissions to the HappyWhale database.
The sightings were
Lynne Boyce recently submitted the photo she took of the whale’s fluke near the entrance of Cid Harbour back in 2017.
This is link if you would like to follow Younga https://happywhale.com/individual/63563;enc=190308
It is never too late to submit photos to HappyWhale, so if you have any recent or old tail fluke photos please upload them to HappyWhale. Just go to www.happywhale.com and upload your tail fluke photo.
To find out more about special whale events and information on whales in the Whitsundays, join the WHALES OF THE WHITSUNDAYS Facebook page go to https://www.whitsundaymarine.org/copy-of-home
Contributed by Kellie Leonard - Master Reef Guide/Whales of the Whitsundays.
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