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Sunshine Coast Humpback Whale Reports

Frst-hand Whale Watching Experiences

Sightings

Entries found here are from Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast whale watching trips from whale season 2020 all the way back to 2011. 

5 October 2011 Whale Watching Report

Record numbers of whales are passing by our coastline at the moment, with at least ten pods sighted through out the day, The Whales were a little quiet at times, with some spontaneous breaches here and there.    

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4 October 2011 Whale Watching Report

The Whales were extremely inquisitive today, when a mother calf and escort whale approached the vessel they expelled the air from their blow spot so close to the boat that patrons experienced the spray, take a look at the Photo's.

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2 October 2011 Whale Watching Report

With the last day of Queensland school holidays today, we had two trips again in "ok" weather. Don't know what westerlies are doing on the Sunshine Coast in October, but the 20 knots in the morning strengthened to 30 by mid-afternoon and made conditions difficult. It's just...

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1 October 2011 Whale Watching Report

Today's Trips were full of breaching, especially from the calves, the most exciting breach was when a mature whale breached several times right in front of the vessel, take a look at today's photos.

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30 September 2011 Whale Watching Report

We came across several pods of mothers and calves throughout the day, most of the mothers were accompanied by an escort whale, the escort is usually a female that will aid in the protection of the calf on their journey home. Today's calves were very inquisitive, and by...

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29 September 2011 Whale Watching Report

Today's afternoon trip produced some of the best acrobatics  seen this year, the patrons were in awe as a mother and calf  gave numerous close encounters, and entertained with many huge breeches.    

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28 September 2011 Whale Watching Report

School holidays and good weather at the same time - these conditions are certainly putting smiles on the faces of a lot of Queenslanders. Winter has certainly gone although threatens to briefly revisit tomorrow. We made the most of it today with another two trips and humpbacks...

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27 September 2011 Whale Watching Report

Whale One enjoyed two trips today with the conditions not the best but still found the whales out and playful. Had great company with the visiting dolphins as well as some good close encounters with several friendly humpbacks.

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26 September 2011 Whale Watching Report

Mother Nature is certainly being kind to us! The forecasted blow went through in the early hours of the morning and eased back on dawn to allow a fantastic morning trip with our humbbacked visitors. A full boat of eager passengers were seeing their first whale within the 3 mile...

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25 September 2011 Whale Watching Report

Another beautiful sunny day on the coast except the north-easter kicked in a bit harder than expected (or wanted). The morning trip had us joining a mother, her calf and an escort just south of the Blinker. They were initially quite illusive but after a while got more friendly...

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24 September 2011 Whale Watching Report

What an excellent result from the sea today. Amazing us with their inspiring grace and natural beauty. We encountered countless pods in close proximity (about 10 pods around us throughout the day). Within the first mile two pods were present (due to legislation we cannot...

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23 September 2011 Whale Watching Report

  As you can see, the conditions were glassy, warm and and perfecto for the energetic whales that we passed, or should i say passed by us. We had close whale encounters, tail slapping, head lunging, and peduncle throws. The customers were beaming with joy as a mother and...

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22 September 2011 Whale Watching Report

  The breeze was refreshing and cool, the sun warming and the whales were wonderful! At the one mile mark we spotted our first mother and calf, unfortunately the whale legislation states we must only watch at three miles off the coast and further, so we past them onto the...

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21 September 2011 Whale Watching Report

  Wow, what a day of excitement at sea! The whales were breaching all directions around us, 3 pods at one time! The traditional mating behavior of the young males was on show also today with erratic and abrupt head lunging and head butting, tail slapping, bubble blasting...

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20 September 2011 Whale Watching Report

It was another stunning day today on the coast, the sun was lovely, the breeze refreshing and warm and the whale's were even better! From just outside the four mile mark our attention was drawn to a mother and Calf who started out calm and relaxed then unexpectedly the calf...

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Queensland’s Sunshine Coast is about a one hour drive north of Brisbane. Mooloolaba is around a  50 minute drive south of the Noosa.

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