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Exciting findings during our Winter Whale Season Research July 12, 2021
Super-Groups of Humpback Whales & Bubble-net Feeding June 6, 2021

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We’re at the end of our season now, with only 3

We’re at the end of our season now, with only 3 more days of tours before we close our business for the next couple of months.

During this autumn / winter season, we’ve been eager to collect more fluke images for the Tasmanian Fluke Project that we set up in collaboration with Dr. Maddie Brasier @madsbrasier . We were able to add twelve “new” whales to the data base and we’d like to thank everybody who has contributed to the project with valuable photos of the Humpback Whale flukes!

We’ve also had several ‘matches’. Some whales have been known to the data base since 1986! This highlights how important ‘citizen science’ can be to support modern marine research!

If you would like to read more about our Whale research here in Tasmanian waters, head over to our blog post (link in bio) where Dr. Maddie has put together a few interesting findings.

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We’ve been enjoying some unreal, calm weather co

We’ve been enjoying some unreal, calm weather conditions down here over the last couple of days and the forecast for the weekend is looking perfect as well. (Thanks Hughie 🙏) It makes spotting wildlife so much easier! This was one of the Humpback Whales we saw on our afternoon tour yesterday. 💙 We’ll be running trips until July 15. (For those interested in our Whale Fluke project: 2 of the whales we saw yesterday have been confirmed as our ‘regulars’ and we’re quite sure that we’ve seen the third whale previously as well, but our fluke photo is yet to be matched).

The weather forecast is showing beautiful & calm c

The weather forecast is showing beautiful & calm conditions for the next few days, perfect to kick off the school holidays! 😊 We’ve finished our seal swim tours for the season, but we’ll be operating our 2+hour scenic tours until July 15.
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Bottlenose dolphins at Cape Hauy #wildoceantasmania

We changed the departure time for our 2+hour sceni

We changed the departure time for our 2+hour scenic tour on Sunday to 9.30am and still have a few seats available. Dm us to book or follow the link in our bio! 💙🐋 PS does that fluke look familiar? 😊

Humpback Whales feeding on bait fish (together wit

Humpback Whales feeding on bait fish (together with seals) on their northern migration today #wildoceantasmania

A big thank you to the amazing crew we had onboard

A big thank you to the amazing crew we had onboard today that didn’t mind the strong wind and southern ocean swell at all and were keen to head offshore to find a large group of #humpbackwhales (initially spotted by @madsbrasier who was set up on the cliffs to count whales for the @orrcaaustralia whale census day). 💙🙏 Did you spot any whales today?

This is the same whale we posted a fluke shot of y

This is the same whale we posted a fluke shot of yesterday. Today it showed its head! 💙☀️

How pretty is this #HumpbackWhale tail with all th

How pretty is this #HumpbackWhale tail with all the speckles? 💙 If you look closely you can see a very distinct target-like marking on the left fluke. Thanks to this marking, this whale is very easy to identify. The first photo was taken last week and we’ve seen the same whale again yesterday. This is very interesting, because it gives evidence that some of the whales also stay in Tasmanian waters on their migration north for a little while and don’t necessarily head straight up to their breeding grounds up north. We’re also super excited that we matched it to a photo taken by @madsbrasier in November last year during the southern migration (see second photo). It’s amazing to see how much the speckles have darkened within half a year! If you’d like to contribute to our #citizenscience project, send your fluke images to either us @wildoceantasmania or to @madsbrasier ! 🙏

If you live on this planet, you can thank the Ocea

If you live on this planet, you can thank the Ocean for it! 💙 Cooperation, not competition, is the very basis of existing life systems and of future survival.
..Unless we adopt sophisticated indigenous belief systems and learn respect for all life, then we loose our own.. #worldoceansday
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Drone footage of several Humpback Whales feeding together as part of a supergroup in October 2020 in Tasmania.

Music by MaxKoMusic, Pure Epicness (we thought that was fitting 😅)

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Humpback Whales
October 10, 2016 Susie
Swimming with Seals
July 24, 2014 Susie

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