Whale Sightings

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…

We could not have asked for a better day, Port Stephens is basking in warm winter sunshine and beautiful calm seas with just a gentle roll. Hinchinbrook Explorer has cruised off shore past the Yaccaba Headland on the Tea Gardens side of the Bay and then on towards Boondelbah Island. We have multiple pods of…

Today’s calm waters made for perfect conditions for whale spotting.  It was ‘Whale overload’ on our morning cruise with passengers being treated with whale sightings in all directions. We made a beeline to the east of Fingal Island where we meet up with a pod of whales who were rather sleepy and not that active. …

Heading out past Mount Tomaree for the first whale watch cruise of the day a couple of Dolphins have swam over to say hello. Cruising further out in line to the Fingal Island Lighthouse we have located a pod of very active whales that displaying signs of a heat run with all whales moving very…

Gorgeous sea conditions again today and the whales are about in great numbers, while we are viewing pods of Humpback Whales within close proximity to the boat there are a number of different pods further off in the distance. One whale surprise everyone during the morning cruise aboard the Hinchinbrook Explorer by breaching unexpectedly catching…