Whale Sightings

The passengers aboard this morning’s cruise encountered everything with whales, dolphins, seals and even 6 fighter jets above. The Humpback Whales were displaying erratic behaviour with 100m dives.  Slowly heading north with a few tail dives they were enjoying the swimming.  About 20 Seals decided to get in on the act playfully swimming around and…

Today aboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer on the morning cruise, the whales made the crew and passengers work hard to find them.  They must have been sleepy as they were not up to much and travelling north then east.  Of course on cue when the vessel decided to depart the whales woke up and wanted to…

We had a triple mugging this morning on board Envision! And our resident Port Stephens photographer Lee Matthews was in her element and excitedly snapped up some incredible photos. These three humpbacks hung around with us for over an hour, showing off with a double spy hop plus more, providing our passengers with some entertainment…

Well it was a mugging and spy-hopping fest today on board Spirit of Port!! We had some incredible glass like sea conditions to start with and then got the shock of our life when three very friendly and inquisitive humpback whales started spy hopping all around the boat. Moving about each side of the boat,…

This mornings 10am Whale Watch cruise on Spirit of Port we were mugged by two very inquisitive humpbacks just off Boondelbah Island! Mugging is when a whale or more than one whale comes up very close to the boat as if to be wanting to get a closer look at us. They’ll usually circle around…

On board Spirit of Port today we located 3x adult humpbacks just off Boondelbah Island and they were charging down south fast! They did stop for a bit and gave us some good surface time and showed off with some tail dives and fin slaps nice and close to the boat. They were enormous as…

We had an incredible morning as we were dolphin watching with such a surprise to see a mother and calf Southern Right whales in the bay! We have had them visit us in the bay in the past, but we haven’t seen them for a few years. Cruising through the bay and rolling at the…

A fantastic day out on the water today on board our newest vessel MV Osprey, with one particular Humpback doing some incredible breaches which our resident whale fanatic/photographer Lee Matthews captured so beautifully whilst on board with us. A little overcast today, and chilly out on the water but still a success with this friendly…

What a great week we’ve had with our whale sightings from Monday right through to Saturday. We’ve seen some whales starting on their southern migration, some still heading north, and still showing us all their magical tricks of double breaches, body rolling, tail slapping, and all the muggings! Saturday had our crew and passengers in…

Although there was a little more swell out on the water today than we anticipated, our passengers were still delighted to see a few double breeches today from a pod of Humpbacks we located. A warmer day with the sun out took a bit of the chill factor away and made for an enjoyable experience…

It seems too early in the season to be sighting south bound whales, but this morning the crew have spotted a lone Humpback Whale heading in a southerly direction as we reached the open ocean. We have followed along side this whale before locating a pod of two Humpback Whales close to the entrance of…

Alert – cute baby pictures incoming! We have spotted a beautiful Humpback Whale swimming along side her very little calf this morning, with regulations in place to protect calves we have given the pair plenty of space but the images captured by our local photographer, Lee Matthews shows the gorgeous tiny calf in a lot…