28 August 2022
What a spectacular sunny Sunday Port Stephens has turned on for our whale watch cruises today. Our morning cruise aboard MV Spirit of Port Stephens has cruised straight out through the headland to where the ocean depth is around 80-100 metres. We have located a pod of two Humpback Whales, one being considerably larger than…
27 August 2022
The crew report from the Hinchinbrook Explorer today ‘Whales in every direction’ with several pods sighted within viewing distance of the vessel. As we come towards the end of August we are seeing a cross over in direction of which whales are traveling with the late runners still being sighted heading north bound towards Queensland,…
26 August 2022
Passengers aboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer have enjoyed time spent with a pod of three Humpback Whales during our morning whale watch cruise. All three whales were seen to have good surface time on the water giving everyone a good viewing of these magestic mammals. We even had a bit of interaction between a pod of…
22 August 2022
Port Stephens has turned on a magnificent day for whale watching off shore, with nice and calm seas and brilliant blue skies. Our passengers on the morning cruise have located two pods of Humpback Whales, one pod consisting of two whales and the other a single whale. Both pods were swimming in a southerly direction…
21 August 2022
The Humpback Whales have been playing a bit of a game of hide and seek with us this morning, the crew have located a pod of two whales on inside to Fingal Island with one of the whales breaching once before disappearing from view. As we have patiently waited to the two whales to surface…
19 August 2022
This morning a juvenile and mother Whale were spotted heading south. During the afternoon cruise, offshore Fingal Island was the place to be where all the action was happening with Dolphins and 3 pods of Whales to the south. The passengers were entertained by 1 pod of Whales close to the vessel with head lunges…
18 August 2022
How lucky were the passengers aboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer this morning…..one large Humpback Whale was about 50m to 100m from the boat completing lots of tail dives. On the return journey, they visited Cabbage Island with plenty of sleepy seals to be seen lazing around and a group of Dolphins were playful jumping at Yacaaba.
16 August 2022
On this morning’s Whale Watching Cruise the Hinchinbrook Explorer located several pods of whales with a group changing directions several times between north and south. At one point the vessel was sandwiched between two pods with the view on the right hand side only metres from the display of breaches and slow tail dives. While…
11 August 2022
With the temperatures being a little on the chilly side the crew rugged up and cruised out off shore. Not long after entering the Humpback highway the crew spotted a few different pods totaling 10 Whales over all. After assessing the sounding dives of the different pods and recording that they where taking 11 minutes…
5 August 2022
During today’s Whale Watching Cruise the passengers were mesmorised by the sight of a mother and calf. Bottlenose and Common Dolphins were travelling with the vessel Hinchinbrook Explorer on the journey within the bay. Bottlenose Dolphins were keeping the vessel company while heading out of the bay on the afternoon cruise. Once out offshore we…
4 August 2022
Aboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer’s Whale Watching Cruise today, two Whales were sighted traveling north participating in half breaches and dives. They were close to the vessel however moving fast. Lots of bird life was spotted around with Petrels, Gannets and Terns to name a few.