Southern Right Whales
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Southern Right Whale Nursery – 18/8/19
The Southern Right Whale nursery grounds take in the beautiful views of Flinders Bay and ensure that the next generation of Southern Right Whales have a fantastic start to life. Our morning began with a few cheeky Bottlenose Dolphins cruising past our stern and continuing on with their foraging. Four Humpback Whale escort pods were…
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Southbound Humpbacks – 11/8/19
Southbound Humpbacks were sighted today and for the first time this season since sighting our first Humpbacks in May we joined a pod of two adults steadily heading back south. The northern Humpback migration will be transitioning over the next couple of weeks as we begin to sight southbound Humpbacks who are focused on making…
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Augusta Southern Right Season Begins – 12/8/19
The Augusta Southern Right Whale Season has begun as today we enjoyed the company of mothers and their precious calves who played and rested in the shallows. A lone Humpback made an appearance this morning as he cruised towards the adult Southern Right Whale just up ahead. Seeming to notice that the whale ahead was…
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The Naming of Things: Right Whale vs Right Whale Dolphin
When it comes to cetacean names few seem as appropriate as the Right Whale. The story goes that these whales were given their name because they were the “right” whale to hunt. They stuck close to coast lines and were slow, docile, and spent much of their time near the surface – making them easy…
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A Great Winter Weekend at a Southern Right Whale Nursery – 1/7/17
Every year, without fail, Southern Right Whales come to the same stretch of coastline to give birth and nurse their young, before returning to more productive Antarctic waters. Logan’s Beach, in Warnambool, is one of the most reliable places to see Southern Right Whales in Victoria, so it is exactly where I decided to spend…