NATURALISTE CHARTER ARCHIVES
Orca
SOUTH OF THE STIRLINGS
Published on March 17, 2020Today in our Orca Whale Watching in Bremer Bay was different from the get go! As we pulled out on our canyon bound journey we noticed a large swirl of birds west of our normal route. We went over to investigate and found three rafts of Albatross on the water’s surface and over fifty Shearwaters […]
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Published on March 16, 202016th of March 2020 update on our orca adventure in western australia. The originals were back in their home range again today! Commanding our attention from the bow, wheel house and back deck. Cookie, El Notcho, Swirl and the youngster Oreo with another two orca were travelling west but certainly were not in a hurry. […]
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Published on March 15, 2020“Seeing dolphins as you leave the harbour is a sure sign of a great day” is a saying I have stuck by since working in the tourism industry! Today supported that as Bottlenose dolphins guided us out to sea… BON VOYAGE! A quick journey out meant we had inshore bottlenose dolphins and orca all before […]
Read moreNothing Short of Epic
Published on March 14, 2020Today began in the hotspot with only fleeting glimpses of Orca blows and dorsal fins! For many of our passengers it was their first time ever seeing wild orca. They buckled in because we were about to be taken on a whirlwind journey! With one pod of orca spending a large amount of time scouring […]
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Published on March 9, 2020The 9th of March, 2020 update for our orca in australia, With no luck at the hotspot this morning we decided to run west! We’ve been so lucky at the hotspot the past few weeks that it was about time we had to go for a proper patrol! Just like clockwork, once we hit Shrek’s, […]
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