Whale Sightings

As the song lyrics describe ‘easy like Sunday morning’ the Humpback Whales sighted during our morning whale watch cruise aboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer are having an extremely lazy Sunday morning as they slowly make their way in a relax mode towards Queensland. Our first whale of the day was spotted close to Fingal Island, this…

The winter mornings in Port Stephens are becoming very brisk and chilly, but off course with colder winter temperatures mean whales, whales, and more whales! Standing on the deck of the Hinchinbrook Explorer is quite obviously the best spot to catch a glimpse of the whales are they come to the surface of the water,…

Fingal Island and the Lighthouse are becoming our lucky charms when it comes to finding whales, we are more often than not all the skippers need to do each cruise is head towards to island and as we come into line with land we are finding whales not too far away. This morning we had…

We have met up with a couple of Humpback Whales heading north bound close to Fingal Island on our 10am whale watch cruise, at times the whales were coming quite close to the boat and only doing three minute sounding dives. The crew have then sighted a Minke Whale, Minke Whales have a sleek, dark…

The first day of June and the first day of winter marks the official start date of the whale migration in New South Wales and while the air is chilly we are set to venture off shore in search of our first Humpback Whale of the day. The crew of the Hinchinbrook Explorer have just…

We have started our morning whale watch cruise aboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer cruising along Shoal Bay Beach toward Mount Tomaree when the crew have viewed an adult Humpback Whale breaching close to Big Island, by the time the vessel reached the open ocean the whale has gone quiet and disappeared from sight. We have sighted…

There is no such thing as Monday-itis when you work at Moonshadow TQC! We are so lucky to spend a working day sharing the experience of viewing magestic Humpback Whales at Port Stephens with our customers. The 10am whale watch cruise aboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer has been action packed with a few pods of whales…

While the wind is quite chilly this morning, as it’s blowing from a westerly direction the wind is actually flattening the swell making conditions good for whale watching off shore at Port Stephens today. Our morning whale watch cruise aboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer Explorer have spent time with one juvenile Humpback Whale, he appeared to…

Oh Port Stephens, what a stunning day you have turned on for our off shore whale watch cruise, conditions are perfect with light sea breezes and the swell just under a meter. It has not taken too long to spot the first Humpback Whale of the day with the crew on the Hinchinbrook Explorer have…

  Crew report from our morning whale watch cruise aboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer, we have had one lone Humpback Whale that was playing hide and seek with us today. The whale was seen disappearing on a number of sounding dives for between eight to tens minutes at a time, making tracking the whales journey a…

Script from conversation with Skipper Matt Office: How was the cruise? Skipper Matt: My Commentary was hilarious Office: It always is but what happened today, tell me everything from the start. Skipper: oh I woke up and had mushrooms on toast. Office: No, no did you see whales? Skipper Matt: oh yeah had three juvenile…

With perfect offshore conditions but a few clouds lingering in the sky the crew set off to find some whales. Once the crew cleared the heads of Port Stephens they noticed conditions where ideal for Whale watching, with passengers located all around the vessel and looking for that puff of smoke, aka the blow from…