Whale Sightings

Humpback Whales are known to communicate from one pod to another by a variety enthralling behaviours that we as passengers take much delight in being able to view during our whale watch cruise. Luckily Humpback Whales are very curious and love to know what is happening in their environment, and quite often swim nice and close to our boat to do a bit of people watching – while we are watching them they are also watching our crew and passengers.

Our passengers have been witness to a number of behaviours over the past weekend from breaching, tail slapping, pec slaps, beautiful tail diving, close passes to the boat, breaching and much more. During one cruises we also sighted a heat run, this occurs when the males within the pod become very vocal and aggressive to one another as they try and compete for the attention of the female in the pod, you quite often see a whale throw its tail creating a big white water splash and showing off their powerful force.

It has not just been the whales, the other stars seen was a beautifully large sea turtle, local Bottlnose Dolphins and seals at Cabbage Tree Island.

Photo credit: Lee Matthews Photography