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Spectacular Whale Watch Experience – 31/10/25
Spectacular Whale Watch Experience was enjoyed on both our morning and midday tour today with extraordinary surface language from both the mums and the calves! It was a spectacular start to our morning as within a short time of arriving four separate mother and calf pods began to have a conversation. Breaching, tail lobs, head…
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A Whale of a Day – 2/7/25
Some days, the ocean hands you a double feature. This was one of them. The day began with more shore-based whale watching. Reports of Bigg’s Killer Whales moving south along the coast had me (among other familiar faces) leapfrogging from point to point between Qualicum and Nanaimo. Each stop meant waiting, scanning for blows, waiting,…
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Mother Humpback Whale Lessons – 29/10/25
Mother Humpback Whale lessons are taught everyday and this afternoon it was all about the breach as mumma whale showed her calf with a perfect example! It has been great to see a good number of whales arriving in the sighting grounds over the last twenty four hours with many mums and calves settling in…
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What Makes Bremer Bay Orca Breach? – 27/3/25
What makes Bremer Bay Orca breach? Today we observed an amazing display of Orca surface language and an example of what makes and Orca breach. It was a busy morning as on our arrival blows were sighted just ahead and we observed two well known and much loved family pods with Queen and Kidji in…
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Under the Polar Night – 12/25
Now we are getting closer and closer to the “darkest” day of the year, the winter solstice on the 21st of December. The commercial herring fishing is on pause now, and the boats will return to the field in early January. We start to see more and more natural feedings again, one of the biggest…