Tag Archives: Moreton Bay
What An Awesome Day
Posted on 06. Oct, 2010 by admin.
A double breach of two magnificent Humpback Whales in Moreton Bay.
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Mad Maggie and Marbles
Posted on 23. Sep, 2010 by admin.
What a fantastic thing it is to observe individual humpbacks migrating yearly, to see some of our favorites year after year is very special given that when they leave Moreton Bay they are subjected to a long 10.000 kilometer round journey with many obstacles along the way. Mad Maggie is missing her dorsal fin, Marbles [...]
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Moreton Bay Alive With Mothers and Calves and Masses of Bait Fish
Posted on 23. Sep, 2010 by admin.
Although widely believed that the Humpback whales only feed in the summer months in the Antarctic it was very apparent that individuals are opportunist feeders. We sighted Mothers and their calves bubble netting through the large schools of bait fish sighted in the Bay. The Humpback whales have developed a very successful method of feeding [...]
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Whale Update for July
Posted on 17. Jul, 2010 by admin.
Australians love the ocean as if it were calling to them, but if the ocean is calling, a big part of the call must be the fact that the Humpback Whale has the longest and most complex call song of all the great whales. This week we experienced the magical sound of the humpbacks singing, [...]
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The Humpback Whales Are Back
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Did you see the humpbacks “mugging the boat” and “spy-hopping”? Mugging the boat is where a whale swims up to the boat and stays with it, performing their magic moves – breaching, tail slapping, pec-slapping, peduncle throwing, round-out diving and spy-hopping. Spy-hopping is where the whale comes right up out of the water in a [...]