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Birthday Whale Swim – 9/24
2024 marked the second year I went to Tonga to swim with humpback whales. Tonga is world renowned for being one of the magical places to swim with whales. This also marked my first time co leading a whale swim trip. My birthday fell on the second day of week two of whale swims. This…
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Winter Solstice – 21/12/24
Today, the 21st of December, is the darkest day of the year (winter solstice), which means that from tomorrow, every day will be a tiny little bit lighter until, eventually, we will welcome back the Sun toward the end of January here in the Arctic. Today, we were lucky to find the “secret spot” with…
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Humpback Season 2024 Finale – 24/11/24
A bittersweet moment this morning as we headed out for our last day of Humpback Whale Season 2024 and it was an absolutely brilliant final day with the whales and our Pod Members. We’ve been joining the pod with our Humpbacks for the last six months on both the east and west coast of Australia…
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Rare White Fluke Humpback Calf – 9/11/24
Rare white fluke Humpback calf was sighted today, a very unique and special sighting of such a beautiful individual Humpback Whale. What a beautiful morning it was as we headed out, the sun was shining and the waters were calm. As we came into the sighting grounds we spotted the most stunning little calf, this…
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Humpback Baleen – 10/11/24
Humpback baleen was on full display today as onboard our morning tour a gorgeous calf played and cleaned his baleen by washing seawater through with an enormous mouth wide open! It is something we observe very rarely and this morning the young calf certainly stole the show with his unique way of playing as he…