Whale Sightings

Lots of mothers, calves and their escorts were the flavour of today’s cruises, with lots of behavior lessons being taught. It’s such a lovely time of the season to see all the new calves coming through with lots of activity as they learn their new skills in the water. We had pectoral fin slapping, tail…

The southern migration is in full swing with mothers and their calves making the most of the beautiful conditions out on the humpback highway. We also had a short visit from a few Indo-Pacific Bottlenose dolphins and for our passengers enjoying our onshore Dolphin Discovery Cruise, we had a humpback come right inside the heads…

Cruising past Boondelbah Island this morning we spotted a mother and calf having a ‘whale of a time’ on their journey down south. Displaying continuous breaches by both. It looked to be somewhat of a lesson that mum was teaching her new calf and was great to bare witness to. A big pod of common…

It’s Saturday, the rain has gone, the sun is out and offshore with no wind chop and just a gentle rolling swell our vessel MV Osprey ventured out for another day of Whale Watching. We first spotted just off Zenith Beach a mother, calf & escort with one of the adults rolling about showing off…

Today offshore sea conditions and large swells have prevented us from heading out offshore for our Whale Watch Cruises, so unfortunately we weren’t in luck when it comes to Whale Watching today…… Or were we??… Quite the opposite really! During our 1:30pm Dolphin Discovery Cruise our passengers and crew alike were shocked and then thrilled…

Spring is in the air! Off shore sea conditions are beautiful today with plenty of sunshine and light sea breeze. The crew onboard MV Osprey have reported that there are whales in abundance with pods of Humpback Whales heading south bound, other heading in a northerly direct and others being a little more confused and…

Have you ever played a game of hide and seek with a Humpback Whale? You would think with such an incredibly large mammal that a whale should be easy to keep track of. This morning the crew have reporedt a number of whales being sighted but these whales were taking long sounding dives spending substantial…

It has been a hazy start to the day in Nelson Bay with a low sea mist hovering making for a mystical appearance as MV Osprey cruised out through the headland at Shoal Bay. We have been treated with the sighting on a local Port Stephens Bottlenose Dolphin and her calf, and a Sea Eagle…

Absolutely beautiful conditions to be cruising in today. Sunny, warm, a slight breeze with nice smooth sea conditions off shore. As we headed out off shore we first came across a pod of whales that seemed to be very interested in a smaller private boat that had two very excited barking dogs on board. We…

We were beginning to have whale withdrawals with unfavourable sea conditions over the past few day not allowing our vessel to head off shore for our Whale Watch Cruise. So as you can imagine we were very eager to get out to see our whale friends again. Captain James has cruised MV Osprey out to…

We could not of asked for a better day on the water for Father’s Day and the first day of spring! Our morning cruise aboard MV Osprey has located approx four pods of Humpback Whales with at least three whales in each pod, with all whales heading north bound. There was lots of action with…

The MV Osprey had a great Whale Watching cruise this morning spotting a mother and calf heading southbound, just north of Fingal Island with the calf breaching several times and was curious to see the boat however the mother threw in a few tail lobs to keep the calf away.  Upon leaving these Humpback Whales,…