Perth weekend whale tours enjoyed the company of many bouncy, playful calves and an enormous number of 50+ adult whales travelling and spreading through the sighting grounds in the afternoon. Our morning was spent with four mums and calves along with a protective male escort who were stretched out and mingling together. The young calves were so excited to be playing together and were showing off with pec slapping and tail lobbing. The calf with a beautiful big black belly was confirmed to be a boy and we smiled to see him practicing his dominant tail lobs and fluke slaps. The mums were making the most of the opportunity to allow the calves to play while they relaxed and many times they would bring the little ones over together to have a closer look at the Steep Point and all of our Pod Members onboard. It was lovely to have our first very social mum/calf pods together today and we know it will be the start of many more to come in the weeks ahead.
Our afternoon tour was set to be a different pace but our first interaction was once again playful mums and bubs rolling around together at the surface and coming over to say hello. Lovely to see them enjoying their time but we noticed they started to shift further into the resting rounds while socialising and we soon realised why as we scanned the horizon. A wall of whales was headed our way with close on fifty adult whales sighted as multiple bachelor boys were scattered along the horizon and moving towards the area we were in. Moving up to meet the whales we joined with a large competition pod of 14 Humpback Whales as another four pods around us were scattered with 4-6 whales in each of those and further blows still out on the horizon. The migration is very much like traffic on a freeway with ebbs and flows, this afternoon we had peak hour as the many bachelor boys filled the sighting grounds bringing with them much energy and excitement. A beautiful day to enjoy some Perth weekend whale tours and meet some of the newest and older members of this population on their epic migration.
