Whale Sightings

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…

The crew aboard MV Osprey have phoned the office during the 10am Whale Watch Cruise to brag and gloat of the amazing whales they have encountered today. There are whales in every direction all within distance of Fingal Island, we have even been spoilt with whales breaching close to the boat at one stage. Coming…

Epic Whales! We are being spoilt with pods of whales in every direction during our 10am whale watch cruise. The southern migration of whales passing close into the shore at Port Stephens is amazing this year. The majority of Humpback pairs of mum and calf have been seen traveling in conjunction with another female escort…

Today it wasn’t just whales we were greeted by on our cruise but an abundance of sea birds! Lots of Petrel’s and Shear water’s were around us today as we cruised the Humpback Highway. And whilst we located 4-5 adult whales and one calf just past Fingal Island, these groups were just migrating slowly and…

With the swells having calmed down after the past few days of not being able to get out, this mornings Whale Watching Cruise onboard MV Osprey did not disappoint. We decided to travel a little farther out past the islands this morning and glad we did as we soon located a mother, calf and escort….

With beautiful conditions on the water today our Whale Watching Cruises across all sessions were nothing short of incredible! First up we located four whales heading north (of all places at this time of the season), tail slapping their way in the opposite direction to the rest. Three more humpbacks were spotted just north of…

WHALES WHALES WHALES It has truly been am amazing October Long Weekend on our Whale Watch Cruises.  We’ve had fine, sunny days and reasonable offshore conditions with whales EVERYWHERE.   On occasion we’ve barely out of the heads and whales have come and  surrounded our vessels. They are using the calm waters between Yaccaba Headland and…

Reporting back from our Dolphin Watch & Eco Adventure cruise this morning, yes you heard right, not our Whale Watching Cruise…. We very soon after crossing through Tomaree & Yacaaba Headlands, spotted three mother’s and calves being very active enjoying this long weekend weather. We had both the mothers and calves breaching, pec slapping &…

Today was nothing short of magical on the humpback highway. We started our morning with the incredible sight of not one, but three separate pods of humpback whales, all migrating south for the season. Among them was a mother and her calf. One pod appeared to be in hot pursuit of another just off Cabbage…