Whale Tales

Location: Fraser Island

  • 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…

  • A Spectacular Breach – 4/9/21

    A Spectacular Breach – 4/9/21

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    This was in Platypus Bay on the western side of Fraser Island, Hervey Bay , Queensland, Australia This is possibly my favorite from this season , a six week old calf perfecting a breach , our winter season was spectacular. -Tony

  • First Breach! – 25/8/18

    First Breach! – 25/8/18

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    These photos are of a six week old calf, this is her very first full breach, as we watched her mother demonstrating how to breach. Tony