Another sick humpback whale was seen off Port Macquarie this reciently. This is the third such sighting since 20 May when Port Macquarie Cruise Adventures started whale watching this year. Owner, John Fowler says “This sickness in Young Humpback whales is definately on the increase. With 4000 trips logged so far and 4 whale watching boats operating this season, we are noticing a big increase in sick whale sightings.”
Cruise Adventures newest and 4th whale watching boat has arrived and to celebrate they are offering $25 whale watching tickets, on sale now. You can buy as many as you like. The sale tickets can be used any time during the whale season.
This year will be a bumper whale season starting late May until early November. Last year Cruise Adventures was the only whale watching operator in Australia to give a money back guarantee for the whole official season (July to October inclusive).
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Port Macquarie Cruise Adventures whale watching crew discovered a deceased whale in the shallows off north beach late yesterday afternoon.
At 8.30am this morning Cruise Adventures Gemini RIB carried out a further patrol along the beach and relocated the whale 1km offshore 3 miles north of Port Macquarie. The 8.5 metre Brydes whale had been dead for some time.
The finding was a sad discovery for the Port Macquarie Cruise Adventures crew who have now logged over 2,200 trips and have a permanent marine biologist on the team.
Two Southern Right whales made a spectacular appearance at Port Macquarie yesterday. The whales spent most of the morning in calm waters just off shore swimming right up to amazed passengers on board Cruise Adventures’ vessels Discovery and Apollo.
Before heading further out to sea one of the whales put on a fantastic display of breaching, easily seen from the headlands.
National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) crews with assistance from Port Macquarie Sea Rescue and a whale watching vessel have successfully disentangled a young adult Humpback whale off Port Macquarie this afternoon.
The whale was first spotted on Wednesday morning, when NPWS staff received a call from a whale watching operator about an entangled whale east of Nobbys Headland at Port Macquarie.
NPWS Regional Manager Greg Croft said that a young adult Humpback whale was located with assistance from a whale watching vessel.
“This was a ‘text book’ disentanglement with it quickly located close to shore and sea conditions were good. The whale was estimated to be about 10 metres long and about 5 years old”, Mr Croft said.
