Naturaliste Charters Whale Blogs

Doppelgängers!!!

Published on March 13, 2019 By Alison Cross

With our free return customers from yesterday’s no orca tour it was easy to say anticipation was high all the way out to the canyon! As we dropped over the shelf every minute felt like an hour! With no sign of orca at the hotspot we headed...

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK!

Published on March 11, 2019 By Alison Cross

After yesterday’s amazing predation in the east, we decided to venture west for the day and it did not disappoint! We started searching 54km offshore at one of our favourite little nooks in the canyon. As soon as we crept over the continental...

Calm, calm, calm, calm…KILL

Published on March 10, 2019 By Alison Cross

Three days of calming, aery ocean and three days of docile, illusive orca UNTIL everything escalated in an INSTANT! Were first taken out to the Hood Canyon, where the seafloor descends another 800m from its already 1500m edge! The orca weren’t...

DEEP SEA AND SPYHOPS!

Published on March 9, 2019 By Alison Cross

Today’s first sighting of orca consisted of two pods, becoming three in just moments! The wind started to drop significantly, making for incredible visibility and flat silky grey seas! As we encroached on the pods of orca, we spotted surges in...

EDGING FOR MORE!

Published on March 8, 2019 By Alison Cross

Merely moments after dropping off the continental shelf of Australia, edging to the boarder of the hotspot, a pod of orca passed by the boat on a mission!! The orca came close, we could hear the exhalations before even sighting them as they...