Whale Sightings

Whales, whales, whales and more whales. We are still seeing good numbers of mum and calf pairs of Humpback Whales continuing their southern migration back to the waters of the Antarctic. The calves are so entertaining to watch as the learn all of their behaviours from mum, with lots of breaching, tail lobs and close…

We have been blown away with our whale encounter this afternoon, even our crew became lost for words with the most wonderful mugging of MV Osprey by a couple of very curious Humpback mums and their calves. Initially we have viewed and followed a mum and her calf as they swam near to Yaccaba Headland…

We still cant get over this end of whale Season that we’re having! Another sensational day out with beautiful spring weather and playful humpbacks. This particular calf who didn’t seem to take their eye off us, breached and head lunged with it’s mouth open, showing it’s baleen plates and tongue, over and over again. The…

This last week of our whale watching season for 2024 is proving day after day that it’s been one of our best seasons yet. Today did not disappoint, even this late in the season with our morning cruise locating a pod of 6-8 whales in a massive heat run. And the best part was with…

Every man and his dog is out here making the most of the spectacular spring weather and heading out to see the humpbacks as they continue their southern migration. Mums and calves breaching in the sun with our gorgeous coastline as a backdrop was the highlight today. We also spotted what we think were two…

An absolute glorious day out on the water in Port Stephens today and what more would you rather be doing than spending the morning on our Moonshadow-TQC Cruises vessel ‘MV Osprey’  travelling out to the Humpback Highway to spot whales in what is our the final week of our Whale Watch cruises for the 2024…

The 10am Whale Watch Cruise aboard MV Osprey has cruised in a northerly direction in search of the whales today. The crew have reported sighting of a number of pods, on approach to the first pod of Humpback Whales we could see them on the surface of the water, the pod took a big dive…

Today we had mothers, calves and escorts almost every way we ventured. Starting off just outside of Tomaree Headland we had a mother, calf and escort with an extremely playful and curious calf! It kept a close eye on us (check out the photos) during the morning’s cruise, and certainly kept us entertained with all…

The crew aboard MV Osprey have phoned the office during the 10am Whale Watch Cruise to brag and gloat of the amazing whales they have encountered today. There are whales in every direction all within distance of Fingal Island, we have even been spoilt with whales breaching close to the boat at one stage. Coming…

Epic Whales! We are being spoilt with pods of whales in every direction during our 10am whale watch cruise. The southern migration of whales passing close into the shore at Port Stephens is amazing this year. The majority of Humpback pairs of mum and calf have been seen traveling in conjunction with another female escort…

Today it wasn’t just whales we were greeted by on our cruise but an abundance of sea birds! Lots of Petrel’s and Shear water’s were around us today as we cruised the Humpback Highway. And whilst we located 4-5 adult whales and one calf just past Fingal Island, these groups were just migrating slowly and…

With the swells having calmed down after the past few days of not being able to get out, this mornings Whale Watching Cruise onboard MV Osprey did not disappoint. We decided to travel a little farther out past the islands this morning and glad we did as we soon located a mother, calf and escort….