Whale Tales

Dolphin

  • Whales Everywhere – 16/11/24

    Whales Everywhere – 16/11/24

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    Today’s trip was nothing short of spectacular, showcasing the incredible marine life just off our coast. Whales had been reported off Asbury Park, so we set out with high hopes of spotting these majestic creatures. It didn’t take long before we found our first whale. While this one proved to be a bit elusive, we…

  • A Long Anticipated Encounter – 18/5/24

    A Long Anticipated Encounter – 18/5/24

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    As someone who has been on the water a lot in several corners of the world over the past decade, I keep a list in the back of my mind of a couple of cetacean species I would love to see one of these, a generally pelagic or offshore dolphin species has eluded me, the…

  • A Quick, Rare Species Encounter – 7/2/24

    A Quick, Rare Species Encounter – 7/2/24

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    We were doing a normal morning cruise where we do look for the Australian Humpback Dolphins and the resident bottlenose dolphins. We’d seen dolphins. We’d gone over towards Fraser Island, where we were pulling up for a swim. So we’d just dropped the anchor, just done a little swim safety briefing, and some of the…

  • Sponge the Humpback Dolphin

    Sponge the Humpback Dolphin

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    So Australian humpback dolphins, they’re, they’re resident dolphins. So both the Australian Humpback Dolphins and the Bottlenose, what we would call old school inshore bottlenose dolphins, but I think they’re now called Indo Pacific bottlenose dolphins, as opposed to Common bottlenose dolphins, which confuses me with the Common dolphin. But yeah, so we both species…

  • Belly Rubs – 9/23

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    Belly Rubs from mum ???? Can’t believe I captured this moment almost sure the mother whale reaches out and gives Bub a belly rub. I filmed them just off Rottnest island Western Australia Heading south after the long migration from the warm waters of the north west , they were part of a group of…