Sightings & Updates

Hey everyone, after talking with Laurie out of the Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station she estimates that there are 75-100 right whales in the area where we were yesterday. I was playing safe with 40 as my estimate.....75-100.....1/4 of the world wide...

Hello everyone....well, I am much more rested and back from another great day on the water but I will tell you about today's sightings in another post. I want to tell you all about our special North Atlantic right whale trip we took yesterday!The trip started off in...

Good evening everyone!We had our special trip out to see North Atlantic right whales this morning and it was so amazing! We needed patience with the weather but it was so worth it in the end. We found over 40 right whales...saw 3 SAG's (surface active groups) and more...

What a great day we had!On our 10:00 am departure we spent time with a number of fin whales, some off the mouth of Head Harbour, some off Nancy's Head and some more towards the Wolves.We found many fin whales as we searched in some offshore areas for humpbacks and...

Hello everyone, today was another great day of whale watching off Head Harbour Passage.Our 10:00 am trip we spent some time and got some great looks at a very young humpback whale, the 2008 calf of Touchdown (picture below). We haven't seen this young whale since...

Hello everyone :)We had one departure today at 2:00 pm and it was wonderful. The water was very calm and the whales we just fantastic. We spent time with fin whales off and in Head Harbour Passage. At one time we had 5 individuals all at the surface on one side of the...

Hello all, it's been another great day of whale watching out of St. Andrews!On our 10:00 am trip the tide was flooding and there were lots of whales only about 9 miles from St. Andrews just off Bliss Island. We documented about 8-10 fin whales and 3 individual...

Hello everyone, it's the last day of the long weekend and today we had some great sightings!On our 10:00 am trip we spent the majority of our time a few miles off Bliss with 8-10 finback whales and 2 humpbacks. Jolinne and I ID'ed the 2 humpbacks as an unknown we have...

Hello everyone, today I had my very first sighting of a mom and her calf humpback pair!! Jolinne and I were so excited (to the point where we did jump up and down). It is the first mom and calf humpback pair we have recorded in our area in 8 years and only the 2nd...

Hello everyone, what a great day that we had today!Our morning trip started off with our unknown humpback that has a darker tail that we have been watching for the past few weeks. "He" wasn't the easiest to find...by sight...we could certainly smell him though!...