Whale Sightings

There was a chill in the air this morning, a sure sign that it is whale season at Port Stephens! The time is right to wrap up with plenty of warm winter clothing, especially a scarf and beanie, and to book onto a Whale Watch Cruise with Moonshadow TQC. Cruising out past Shoal Bay on…

It was a relaxed kind of morning for the two Humpback Whales spotted during our morning whale watch cruise aboard MV Osprey. Located about 75 metres off shore from Boat Harbour, both whales were quite content continuing their journey north bound. We have followed along at the same pace as the whales with reports from…

We have blue skies and sunshine for our first official day of  Whale Watch Cruises at Port Stephens! Hinchinbrook Explorer has headed in a southerly direction once we reached the Fingal Island Lighthouse on the gamble that we would encounter a Humpback Whale as they start making their way north bound. A little of patience…

The whales are here!!! With the past few weeks giving us very sporadic glimpses of our great mammal friends re-visiting us for another season (and quite early in the season at that), we were thrilled to spot our first pod just off of Broughton Island today with two humpback whales breaching in the far distance…

Whales, whales, whales and more whales. We are still seeing good numbers of mum and calf pairs of Humpback Whales continuing their southern migration back to the waters of the Antarctic. The calves are so entertaining to watch as the learn all of their behaviours from mum, with lots of breaching, tail lobs and close…

We have been blown away with our whale encounter this afternoon, even our crew became lost for words with the most wonderful mugging of MV Osprey by a couple of very curious Humpback mums and their calves. Initially we have viewed and followed a mum and her calf as they swam near to Yaccaba Headland…

We still cant get over this end of whale Season that we’re having! Another sensational day out with beautiful spring weather and playful humpbacks. This particular calf who didn’t seem to take their eye off us, breached and head lunged with it’s mouth open, showing it’s baleen plates and tongue, over and over again. The…

This last week of our whale watching season for 2024 is proving day after day that it’s been one of our best seasons yet. Today did not disappoint, even this late in the season with our morning cruise locating a pod of 6-8 whales in a massive heat run. And the best part was with…

Every man and his dog is out here making the most of the spectacular spring weather and heading out to see the humpbacks as they continue their southern migration. Mums and calves breaching in the sun with our gorgeous coastline as a backdrop was the highlight today. We also spotted what we think were two…

An absolute glorious day out on the water in Port Stephens today and what more would you rather be doing than spending the morning on our Moonshadow-TQC Cruises vessel ‘MV Osprey’  travelling out to the Humpback Highway to spot whales in what is our the final week of our Whale Watch cruises for the 2024…

The 10am Whale Watch Cruise aboard MV Osprey has cruised in a northerly direction in search of the whales today. The crew have reported sighting of a number of pods, on approach to the first pod of Humpback Whales we could see them on the surface of the water, the pod took a big dive…

Today we had mothers, calves and escorts almost every way we ventured. Starting off just outside of Tomaree Headland we had a mother, calf and escort with an extremely playful and curious calf! It kept a close eye on us (check out the photos) during the morning’s cruise, and certainly kept us entertained with all…