Bremer Canyon Expedition 11/2/18

Bremer Canyon Expedition 11/2/18

We had a beautiful trip to the blue office again today. The sun shone and the sea was as calm as it gets on the southern ocean. In a textbook start, we sighted a pod as soon as we arrived. We recognised the small family as one that we spent our day with yesterday. The...
Bremer Canyon Expedition 10/2/18

Bremer Canyon Expedition 10/2/18

Our trip to the canyon today was nothing short of spectacular, definitely an epic way to spend a birthday as our guests Christine and Gayle did today. We also welcomed back the Dawes family for their third year. The sun promised to break through the clouds as we left...
Bremer Canyon Expedition 7.2.18

Bremer Canyon Expedition 7.2.18

What a show we received today with the Orca playing, tumbling and jostling together right beside the boat. However this wasn’t the case for the first pod we came across in the canyon today. The first pod was a cruising group of surface swimming orca, we recognised El...
Bremer Canyon Expedition 4.2.18

Bremer Canyon Expedition 4.2.18

We had an absolutely incredible day at the canyon today! When we first dropped off the edge of the continental shelf, we were surrounded by hundreds of small White Faced Storm Petrels hopping across the surface of the water dipping their beaks to feel on the energy...
Bremer Canyon Expedition 3.2.18

Bremer Canyon Expedition 3.2.18

It was a swell day out in the canyon today, so the killer whales weren’t hard to find. As we dropped off the shelf we noticed oil slicks straight away and so began heading toward them. Killer whales are often more active on the surface and easier to find on choppy...
Bremer Canyon Expedition 30/1/2018

Bremer Canyon Expedition 30/1/2018

The southern ocean made it’s power felt as we rounded the rock wall of the boat harbour today, grey swells lumping through the bay, meeting the bow of the Alison Maree head on. A fittingly dramatic beginning to an expedition on the southern ocean.As we dropped into...