Whale Sightings

What an action packed day on the water!!!  MV Osprey on the morning cruise had the pleasure of being mugged by three Humpback Whales for up to about 45 minutes.  They were very curious with lots of spy hopping and the passengers continued to see breaches in the distance on the horizon.  The afternoon Whale…

Both of our cruises today had success sighting the whales heading north.  The morning cruise had three pods of Humpback Whales swimming close by at Cabbage Tree Island with a few breaching in the distance.  Lots of Common Dolphins joined the MV Osprey on the way back into the bay through the heads.  The afternoon…

What a day we had today with what many of us are calling “Breach-Fest 2024”. Another day with whales everywhere all breaching left, right and centre with even a very close double breach, looking like they were so close they’d crash into each other. Our passengers were left awe inspired after the spectacles we saw…

Beautiful conditions this morning on Osprey, with the first lot of whales seen off Little Island, a mother and calf migrating north. In the distance we had a lone whale having it’s own ‘breach-athon’ where our crew said it would have breached by guess around 40 times! All up we did end up having a…

It was a game of hide and seek for Envision on the 11am Whale Watch Express, but with a hot tip from one of the other whale watch vessels we raced back towards Boondelbah Island to witness two large adult Humpback Whales putting on quite a display of breaching, tail slapping and tail lobbing. MV…

With great conditions offshore today our crew onboard MV Osprey were keen to venture out and it seemed our local resident bottle nose dolphins were too as they were spotted on our journey leaving Nelson Bay & also looked to be heading in the same direction. We picked up two whales just off Fingal Lighthouse….

What a day, the whales appear to be pleased to see our whale watch vessels out to meet them as they pass along the Port Stephens coastline. During both our morning and afternoon cruises aboard MV Osprey we have located pods of Humpback Whales near the Fingal Island Lighthouse. We have been blessed with an…

We have missed our whale friends over the past week with unfavourable sea conditions keeping on our whale watch vessels at the marina. With sea conditions easing and improving overnight we can’t wait to get back out on the Port Stephens whale highway today. As MV Osprey has cruised towards Fingal Island this morning we…

With windy conditions about we were prepared for a bit of chop offshore, but certainly nothing that our boats and capable skippers cant handle, so we headed out offshore and found a pod of two very active whales who seemed to really enjoy the extra movement in the water. We decided to hang out with…

MV Osprey and her crew have located an extremely large pod of 10 – 15 Humpback Whales close to Fingal Island on our first whale watch cruise of the day. The pod included at least five very boisterous males that were clearly vocalising and grunting to show their dominance to others within the pod in…

With glorious weather here in Nelson Bay today we couldn’t wait to get out on the water and jump onto the humpback highway. On both our morning and afternoon cruises we had numerous pods of slow moving migrating whales heading up north to the warmer waters. They weren’t particularly ‘tricky’ today and more so were…

We spent most of our cruise time this morning with migrating whales approx. 1 mile off Cabbage Tree Island. These whales didn’t seem to want to show us their acrobatic displays, rather spending mainly surface time as they headed north on their northern migration. We did have some very excited common dolphins entertaining our passengers…