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OzWhaleWatching

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9518 7813

Address: Eastern Pontoon 2009 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.ozwhalewatching.com.au

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24.01.2022 Jump on Board this Amazing Day of Action

20.01.2022 As promised to Tuesday afternoon's guests, here is an album of "out-takes" from that cruise .... more breaching, tail throwing, both tail and pectoral fin slapping, eye shots, interaction between the Humpbacks and Common Dolphins, along with a sequence of the cow and calf on the surface together.

19.01.2022 We enjoyed an excellent cruise this afternoon ! We'd been kindly advised of a number of Humpbacks off Long Reef, but on our way to them we noticed some splashing around wider and to the east of Blue Fish Point. This turned out to be 3 Humpback Whale cow and calf pairs within a couple of hundred metres of each other. After arriving in the vicinity, 2 of the pairs had quietened down, so we watched the pair with the more active calf. For the first part of our encounter the calf ...tail slapped and threw, the cow coming up consistently on the other side of the calf but heading it off if it tried to cross our bows or stern. Over the next part of the cruise the pair had a much more erratic course as they interacted with a pod of Short-beaked Common Dolphins, the dolphins continuing to forage whilst they were with the Humpbacks (note the picture of the dolphin with prey in its mouth). The calf pectoral fin slapped during this phase. After the dolphins had moved off the calf embarked on breaching and head slapping fest (note that the calf's eye is visible in a number of the shots).

16.01.2022 We watched relaxed 5 Humpback Whales in calm seas under mostly sunny skies this afternoon. We first watched a Humpback cow and calf pair with a probably male escort. The calf had interim uptimes before joining the adults' uptimes, the escort had white mottling around its dorsal fin area and somewhat battered looking tail flukes. We stayed with them for about an hour before heading north to look for other whales. Before turning back south at Curl Curl we saw a hunting line o...f Bottle-nosed Dolphins and an eagle-eyed guest spotted blows off North Head. We then spent some time with what turned out to be a Humpback cow and calf pair before turning back into the Harbour. The cow was relaxed with us, allowing her calf to come up between herself and the MV Jerry Bailey and then they both went underneath the vessel coming up in the same configuration on our other side, ie. the calf close alongside the vessel, between the cow and the vessel. We also saw Gannets, Shearwaters and Jaegers, along with an RAAF C130 Hercule. The first 8 pictures are highlights, whilst the rest of the album is in chronological order.

13.01.2022 OzWhaleWatching's last day of whale watching for the 2020 season was a day of mixed fortunes. All the whale watching vessels failed to find whales this morning and, as such, all of our morning guests received a return voucher. It was only our 2nd miss for our entire 2020 season and we were pleased to see that our guests enjoyed the cruise, especially the Short-beaked Common Dolphins, and we look forward to seeing them back aboard in the future. This afternoon all whale wat...ching vessels watched the same Humpback cow and calf that had been reported to one of our colleagues by a shore-based spotter. The pair were very reactive, changing course in response to the manoeuvring of vessels and, in one case, the calf breached and tail threw directly alongside the MV Jerry Bailey as another vessel approached at speed. However, this reactive behaviour worked to our favour as the pair would often turn straight towards the MV Jerry Bailey and pass directly astern or across our bows, giving all aboard great views.

10.01.2022 We sighted 2 Humpback Whales off Curl Curl Head this afternoon and watched them as they cruised along at the foot of the North Head cliff line (with a White-bellied Sea Eagle above them), across the mouth of the Harbour and along the cliff line to Dover Heights. Given the behaviour of the repetitive individuals in the pair, we suspect that they were a cow with last season's calf. They both had white flanks that showed up through the water an d the calf had a propensity to do very high fluke-up dives. We kicked out wider after leaving the pair before cruising back in.