Whale Sightings

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…

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…