http://www.byronbaywhalewatching.com.au whale watching Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:35:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the last couple of weeks we have witnessed a significant number of humpback whales heading south past Byron Bay. It is almost one way traffic with encounters with northward bound whales becoming few and far between. Many of the pods Whale Watching Byron Bay has encountered have been highly ... http://www.byronbaywhalewatching.com.au/2010/09/humpbacks-heading-south/ One of the east coasts most recognisable whales, Blade Runner, was seen on Monday the 9th of August, 2010. Whale watchers were treated to a rare encounter with a whale so named due to distinctive scarring along it's back a result of a collision with a large vessel's propeller ... http://www.byronbaywhalewatching.com.au/2010/08/blade-runner-visits-byron-bay-again/ We have seen a lot of humpback mother and calf pods heading north over the past few days. At this stage of the migration many of the whales heading north past Cape Byron are pregnant females after spending more time feeding in the southern ocean before heading north. The current ... http://www.byronbaywhalewatching.com.au/2010/08/baby-boom/ The number of whales heading north has been building since late May and in the last couple of weeks we have seen a lot of competitive behaviour between adult whales, such as breaching, lunging at each other and slapping the surface of the water with their tails. We ... http://www.byronbaywhalewatching.com.au/2010/07/no-shortage-of-whales/ The humbpback whale migration is well and truly passing Byron Bay right now.  We have encountered numerous whales on our tours so far with some spectacular acrobatic displays. There has also been plenty of bottle-nose dolphins thruought the bay taking advantage of an abundance of bait fish in these parts.  Large ... http://www.byronbaywhalewatching.com.au/2010/06/whale-ho/ Whale Watching Byron Bay will commence tours on Saturday the 5th of June. Over recent days more and more whale sightings have been reported in the area.  Whale researchers are predicting the main body of migrating humpback whales is just around the corner and that they should begin passing Cape Byron ... http://www.byronbaywhalewatching.com.au/2010/05/2010-tours-commence-5th-of-june/ At approximately 2:30 pm on Monday 28th September Migaloo the white whale payed a quick visit to Byron Bay. Migaloo is the worlds only completely white humpback whale which researchers are almost certain is an albino. The 20 year old male whale was spotted at the end of the last tour of the ... http://www.byronbaywhalewatching.com.au/2009/09/migaloo-visits-byron-bay/ Check out all the new photos we just uploaded in the Byron Bay Whale Watching gallery. There are some amazing interactions this year. Make sure you don't miss out on these close encounters. http://www.byronbaywhalewatching.com.au/2009/08/humpback-whale-gallery/ Today Bladerunner, the amazing survivor of a previous boat strike, passed Byron Bay on his annual migration to the Great Barrier Reef.  Bearing the horrific scars from a propeller wound received on a previous migration this humpback was seen accompanied by another whale casually swimming north.  It was a great day with ... http://www.byronbaywhalewatching.com.au/2009/06/razor-back-visits-byron/ Whale Watching Byron Bay commenced tours for the 2009 season on the Queens Birthday long weekend.  Passengers were not disappointed with humpback whales encountered on every tour.  Sea conditions were perfect and the whales put on an amazing performance with many breaching.  As a bonus a large pod of inshore bottle-nose ... http://www.byronbaywhalewatching.com.au/2009/06/2009-whale-watching-tours-have-commenced/