Naturaliste Charters Whale Blogs

Bremer Canyon Expedition 16/3/18

Published on March 16, 2019 By Naturaliste Charters

We set of today heading out to the canyon with hungry eyes in search of our apex predator that appeared to be MIA yesterday. Lucky for us today we managed to locate them just off the shelf as soon as we had arrived in the canyon. The loose...

KILLER WHALES EVERYWHERE

Published on March 14, 2019 By Naturaliste Charters

Well what started as an overcast day in the harbour certainly did not stay that way out in the canyon! A pod of Striped dolphins bouncing and porpoising playing in our bow wave were the teaser for the day as we dropped off the continental shelf...

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...