over 200 humpback whales sighted!
The Tangalooma Whale Watching season is now in full swing with over 200 whales sighted on just twelve cruises!
Tangalooma’s famous Whale Watching Cruise is now underway with five cruises per week heading out into Moreton Bay in search of these gentle giants. In the first few weeks alone, we spotted over 200 whales from onboard the Tangalooma Jet! That’s an average of 18 whales per whale watching cruise!
Visitors have delighted at the magnificent humpbacks who love to put on a show. That moment where the whales propel themselves to the surface with their powerful tails and leap into the air before crashing back down into the water with an almighty crash, is simply awe-inspiring from up-close. Humpbacks are very intelligent mammals and research suggests that the slapping and crashing action that can be seen during their annual migration is a way for the whales to communicate with each other.
Known as one of nature’s most impressive animal migrations, over 36,000 humpback whales are set to journey along the Eastern Coast of Queensland from Antarctica on their annual migration between June and October.
The humpbacks travel to Queensland’s warmer waters to give birth to their calves and on their way back south often spend time with their young in the shallow lagoons and calmer waters around Moreton Island. They use the Bay as the perfect pit stop on their long journey back to Antarctica.
Humpbacks journey over 8,000km each way on this migration, making their journey the longest migration of any mammal on Earth. The humpbacks may be slow swimmers but they more than make up for that with their endurance, as they can swim non-stop for many days at a time. Their trip doesn’t have any time for food breaks, the humpbacks survive on the fat reserves that they build up while feeding on the nutrient rich waters in Antarctica.
Moreton Bay is alive with activity, not only from the Humpbacks making their way up the warm Eastern Coast but from dolphins, turtles, stingrays and dugongs too.
Be sure to grab the family and book your cruise across the Bay to tick this natural wonder off your bucket list. With cruises departing Brisbane and Tangalooma five times a week, now is the best time to get out into the bay and see these majestic whales on their epic migration. A light packed lunch is included on the whale watching cruise and all COVID safe practices are in place to ensure the comfort and safety of all visitors.
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