Whale Sightings

Some beautiful conditions on the water today to get back out and enjoy our marine mammal friends. We started this mornings cruise off with an exciting heat run and lots of surface time by a pod of 5 whales making their way north. We spent the majority of our time with this pod as our…

After a weekend just gone of wild winds and monster seas, to say were were keen to get back out on the water today is an understatement. Our newest addition to the fleet ‘MV Osprey’ headed out just past Fingal Lighthouse this morning and was mugged! If you’re not sure what ‘mugging’ is when it…

With the NSW July School Holidays coming to an end this weekend our whales are keeping up appearances. Todays morning cruise passengers spent time with a lone whale on its northern migration on the humpback highway.  It wasn’t making much of an effort to make a splash, mainly spending time on the surface and taking…

With a windy day ahead of us we were unsure of what the day would entail, but our crew were lucky enough to find a lone humpback just off Fingal Lighthouse who was providing our viewers some great surface time. There were breaches, tail slaps, pectoral fin slaps, tail dives and also just a bit…

It must be snowing!! The westerly winds blowing through Port Stephens feels like it is coming directly from the Barrington Tops Mountains the winds feel icy cold today. All the crew and our passengers aboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer are rugged up in winter jackets, scarfs and beanies for the morning Whale Watch Cruise. We have…

Our cruise director Cami on board Hinchinbrook Explorer this morning said “Wow – where do I even start?!” when describing their time offshore this morning along the humpback highway. With the conditions offshore very cool and windy, this didn’t stop our marine mammal friends from giving our passengers a spectacular viewing today. As soon as…

It has been a perfect day for whale watching at Port Stephens, while there is certainly a chill in the air we are happy to be back out on the whale highway. The crew onboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer has located a pod of two Humpback Whales. We have cruised along with the pair as they…

Today we had both MV Osprey and Hinchinbrook Explorer heading out offshore to hopefully catch some action on the Humpback Highway. Between the two cruises we were able to find a pod of two very active juveniles “doing everything!” as excitedly described by our crew. The two juveniles were happily displaying a mixture of tail…

This morning on board Hinchinbrook Explorer our skipper decided to head right past Fingal Island and down towards Birubi Point where the extra distance did not disappoint and certainly paid off. We soon located a pod of around four or so humpback whales who looked to be enjoying the sunny day here with pectoral fin…

Moonshadow TQC Cruise Director Renee made her whale update this mornings cruise full of excitement.  They had been traveling with five separate pods of whales throughout the cruise.  Skipper Matt was full of information educating our passengers about these amazing mammals.There were plenty of breeches, tail slaps, head lobbing, tail flukes & spouting. To the…

It’s a whale Bonanza at Port Stephens and just in time for the school holidays! The crew on MV Osprey has reported the sighting of many pods of Humpback Whales. Again the hot spot of whale sightings have all been around Fingal Island so we have not needed to cruise too far from the headland…

After a number of days of whale watch cruises being land locked due to unfavourable sea conditions off shore we are excited to get back out on the Port Stephens Whale Highway in search of the mighty Humpback Whales. The Hinchinbrook Explorer has kept in close to the off shore Islands of Boondelbah and Fingal…