The Daily Whale™

Read the latest on what’s been happening during each of our unique tours ……..

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Once In a Lifetime Tour! 17th July 2016 Leaving the marina this morning we did not expect to be a part of a once in a lifetime tour. We noticed a pod about 200 meters away and as we stopped our vessel to determine what type of pod and where they were moving suddenly all whales turned directly towards our ves... Pretty Woman 15th July 2016 Fantastic experience today as we watched a very Pretty Woman (Whale The Three Amigos! 13th July 2016 On our morning tour today we had an incredibly close encounter with a big male Humpback who moved past our bow like a torpedo! Absolutely incredible energy and he was only centimetres from our bow. He was one of the "Three Amigos" we met this morning, a Bachelor Pod of... Humpback + Dolphin = Fun! 12th July 2016 After a weekend of bad weather it was absolutely wonderful to be back out on Flinders Bay and our gorgeous whales gave us the most wonderful welcome back! On both our morning and afternoon tours we had Humpback whales interacting with Dolphin pods and then turning thei... First Southern Right, Breaching & Leeuwi 8th July 2016 We are super excited! Our very first Southern Right whale was sighted yesterday and what made this sighting even more special is that this whale had a newborn calf with her Opera Serenade to Our Whales 6th July 2016 We experienced one of the most beautiful moments we have had in Flinders Bay this afternoon as our very talented guest was kind enough to share her incredible talent as she serenaded our whales with a beautiful song❤️ A magical moment we will treasure and remember alwa... Baby Humpback Re-sighted 5th July 2016 It was another happy morning out on Flinders Bay today which became even happier when we discovered our baby Humpback again! As usual he was keeping very quite so it wasn't until 10 minutes after we had spent some time with this pod that we sighted him safe in mums sha... Sleeping & Competing 4th July 2016 We had a great mix of very active competition pods today and many relaxed pods who seemed very curious to come over and say hello! Big males hustled through the bay and even raced across our bow on the morning tour which was incredibly exciting to be right in the middl... Olivia Rose 2nd July 2016 Inspired by one of our youngest guests onboard today we nicknamed the two beautiful young Humpbacks who decided to surprise everyone by surfacing right on our bow! Olivia is the bigger one while Rose was a tiny bit smaller and seemed to be following Olivia's lead. Hidi... Flinders Bay Friday 1st July 2016 A beautiful day spent out on Flinders Bay with our wonderful Humpback whales Busy Humpbacks in Bay 30th June 2016 It was certainly a busy day today for our Humpback whales as on both morning and afternoon tours the activity was high as many whales interacted with one another. Most excitingly we re-sighted our beautiful little Humpback calf and his mum! Looking a bit bigger and mov... The Cougar 29th June 2016 One of our guests inspired the name of our Daily Report today as we watched a very large female Humpback call in all of the available male Humpbacks around the bay with an incredible display of repeated breaching and pec slapping! Being such a large female in size and... First Humpback Calf Sighted! 28th June 2016 We had a huge surprise this afternoon as we met our very first Humpback calf for season 2016 Humpback Courtship 27th June 2016 Very special tours today with an incredible interaction this afternoon as we watched a female Humpback and two males gently twist and turn on the surface showing us something very very special.... Humpback Courtship! Mating has never been recorded as this usually happe... I Spy a Humpback Eye 26th June 2016 After a few days of stormy weather it was lovely to be back out on Flinders Bay enjoying the company of so many beautiful Humpbacks, they were everywhere! Over 50 Humpbacks were sighted today collectively from our morning/afternoon tours and we had a fantastic display...
Whale Tail Sailing 24th June 2016 The unique behaviour of tail sailing is important to the day to day life of our whales. Floating upside down with fluke high and dry above the surface, some have reported the sight as looking similar to a giant butterfly or palm tree when spotted from a great distance... Sail Away With Me 23rd June 2016 What a special cruise we had yesterday morning as we witnessed a very unique behaviour that is rarely ever seen... especially at this time of our season! Tail Sailing is when a whale will hang upside down and their enormous tail fluke will be above the oceans surface.... Surrounded by Humpbacks 21st June 2016 Moments from leaving the Augusta Boat Harbour we were surrounded! Everywhere we looked you could see the tall blow from Humpback pods and big splashes of white water from breaching and surface activity throughout Flinders Bay. Well over 20 Humpbacks were sighted on our... Breaching!!! 20th June 2016 Wow! Our very first big breaching session for the season was sighted today on our morning tour and we were excited! This gorgeous big Humpback was with two other whales but decided to show off with 5+ head lunges and to our great delight the show continued with multipl... Follow the Leader 19th June 2016 This morning we met a pod of 4 gorgeous Humpbacks who were right in the middle of a game of Follow the Leader Troublesome Eight 18th June 2016 Two competition pods sighted today, one on our morning tour and one on our afternoon. The afternoon pod was full of energy as eight huge Humpbacks moved out of Flinders Bay and had us watching carefully as they all surfaced at once creating a lot of excitement to see s... Familiar Juvenile 17th June 2016 That moment you look at someone and know you have seen them before? Well we experienced that very feeling on our morning tour as a familiar juvenile Humpback looked strikingly similar to the little one we met yesterday! Today something was different though... he had a... Following Footprints 16th June 2016 Not long after we left the marina a blow was sighted close by and as we waited for the whale to resurface once again everyone was caught by surprise! Only 3 meters off our bow a very young juvenile Humpback surfaced and it was very clear that he was having a sleep in.... Lighthouse + Humpback = :) 15th June 2016 Our favourite shot to capture while we are in Augusta is two of the most magical things Augusta is renowned for, her magnificent Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse and of course the beautiful giants she shares her bay with. Today we had the perfect opportunity as a pod of rowdy m...