Whale Watching Brisbane
Every year Humpback whales make their annual migration north. Whale watching from Brisbane, QLD takes place from June to November.
Escaping the cold waters of Antarctica for warmer, more tropical waters to birth their calves. This round trip migration can take over 10,000 km to complete.
Both Australia's East and West coasts are able to witness this beautiful journey.
Humpback whales are a baleen whale which means their teeth act like a filter. When they eat, large amounts of water are taken in. Any food is kept behind while the water is pushed back through their baleen teeth.
Weighing up to 40 tonnes these gentle giants need a lot of food. They eat up to 1.5 tonnes of small fish and krill a day!
Being such a generous size you can see the whales from the beach. Especially when they are breaching out of the water! But it is a wonderful experience to get up closer to them in a boat.
Queensland boasts several popular whale watching hot spots
- Gold Coast
- Brisbane, Moreton Bay Marine Park
- Sunshine Coast
- Hervey Bay, Australia's Capital for whale watching
- Southern Great Barrier Reef
- Whitsundays, North Qld
Our cruise with Brisbane Whale Watching departed from Redcliffe. Which is less than an hour drive from Brisbane CBD.
Boarding commenced from 9.15am and we departed the Jetty at 10am. It's a nice, sunny winter's day with flat, calm water.
Our catamaran vessel Eye Spy cruises across Moreton Bay with ease and great speed. Doesn't take too long until we arrive at Moreton Island.
We slow down to a more scenic speed and can see Tangalooma resort as well as the Shipwrecks. Keep cruising along the left side of the Island. See the North Point Lighthouse and continue on to Flinders Reef.
From here our captain Kerry has already spotted a pod off in the distance. It takes me awhile to see where the whales are. But their blowholes spurting out water give them away.
As we get closer can see a few fins and tails cutting through the water. We are told to keep an eye out for the white underbellies so that you can track them under the water.
The whales seem to be having a whaley good time and were really active. We were lucky to see 30+ breaches and quite a few impressive tail slaps.
You can identify the whales from their tail fluke. Just like our fingerprints, no two are the same.
Since all commercial whaling in Australia stopped in 1978, many of the whale populations have begun to recover. Which is great news!
We thoroughly enjoyed our experience with Brisbane Whale watching. Highly recommend them, not only do they 100% guarantee sightings, a portion of your ticket goes towards whale charities 🐳✌.
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Amazing photos and amazing experience! I wish there would be anywhere closer where it would be so easy to spot whales. I'm happy to hear that their population is recovering. It's a great news!
I also like the picture of 'where do they go' as I had no idea :)
Thank you for sharing and have a good day!
Thanks @delishtreats it sure was an amazing experience 😊 It is such great news that their population is recovering.. If only we could say the say for all the other endangered animals 🤞I say that picture online and thought the same thing, so had to include it. Happy Friday to you too 😁
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Wow, I made this wow expression really from the heart after reading your blog. Because from few lines, I was able to gather some informations that otherwise I would never been able to comes across may be like the whale teeth is like filters, and a full round migration of these whales is around 10000 kilometers etc.
You also has been able to snap some excellent Photographs, Are you a professional inphotography. The Photo in which the lightfalls only on a particular spot looks wonderful.
I really enjoyed this post. Cheers and have a nice day'
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Thank you very much @Angelo 😊 they sure are fascinating animals aren't they? Such a great experience to see them in their natural environment having a whale of a time! No not a professional but maybe one day haha thanks again for your kind words 👍
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ehy dear @terrybogan, you are a great photographer and you have been exceptional models !! beautiful these whales, in your shots, they seem like dancers in their evolution between sea and sky, what a show !! who knows try seeing all these boats around them !! we too have been lucky enough to see some blue whales in a chile, beautiful experience :-))
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Thanks @road2horizon 😊 they sure are great models 🐳 it was so amazing to see them launch out of the water! Wow it would of been amazing to see blue whales! They are even bigger than humpbacks which is kind of hard to imagine. Thanks again for your comment 😁
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yes, I seem to have read that they are the largest mammals in the world !! but they didn't dance like yours, they just swam flush and we only saw their big back :-))
I think we were really lucky with how active they were 😊
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hey @terrybogan,
thanks to your post I've learned that whales are migrating much closer to the Australia for giving a birth ;) It suppose to be a great experience to see a whale live. I cannot believe that even with a short amount of whales in our oceans, people from Iceland, Norway and Japan are still hunting on those amazing animals... Are they under a protection in Australia ?
Thank you @cubapl 😊 it's horrible to know that in this day and age that some countries still hunt whales! Luckily they are under protection in Australia which is why their population is recovering. Hopefully one day they will be protected all around the world 🐳
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they are explaining that hunting on whales is a part of their heritage, but I think that sooner or later they will quit it, as for example people quit from hunting witches :)
Well I hope so.. history has shown that we have learnt from things of our past :)
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