Category: Whale Reports
By: Mike Davey
9th June 2024- Whale Watching starts with a Bang!
The first two days of our 2024 Whale Watching season has shown us that this year could be a busy one. Whilst we saw a few whales passing us in the last week, yesterday and today brought us lots of Humpbacks. Both days this weekend the whales, whilst making their way north in a steady manner,…
By: Teagan Anderson
14th September 2023- Beautiful Deep Blue
We had perfect conditions this morning for a swim, so we took advantage of the beautiful weather and headed out for some epic whale swimming! We had a massive pod of both Common and Bottlenose Dolphins escorting us on our way out wide, leading us to the pods of playful humpbacks! We were intially greeeted by…
By: Teagan Anderson
28th August 2023-Whales and Visibility!!
What an epic time in the water our whale swimmers had this morning! 2wild shot out wide this morning looking for some playful Humpback Whales. Visibility was looking fantastic and we had some very curious Humpback's keen to show off their pectoral fin slapping and breaching! Swimmers slipped into the water and had 2 adult humpbacks…
By: Teagan Anderson
25th August 2023- another successful swim!
2wild and its swimmers had a FANTASTIC day out at sea swimming with whales today! Enjoying the sunshine, we steamed out wide again in hopes of finding playful giants! We were lucky enough to come in contact with a couple pods, waving their pectoral fins and showing off their breaching as they swam by us on…
By: Teagan Anderson
23 August 2023- First Whale Swim of the Season
2Wild steamed out this morning for our first whale swim of the season! Our swimmers were super keen to get in the water with these gentle giants and they were not disappointed!!!! We headed out wide and were greeted by 3-4 different pods and took the opporutnity to get in the water. Two Humpback Whales mugged…
By: Teagan Anderson
9th June 2023- Season starts with a (big) splash
Today marked the first day of our Whale watching season! Megawild made their way out, with calm seas and little winds. Megawild followed one pod of Humpback Whales, watching them surface more than a few times. One whale was so happy to see us, he breached more than 20 times. We are haoppy to say it…
By: Lindsay Devery
2nd September 2022 – Swimming with Whales!!
Finally, we had some good conditions to get out for a Whale Swim!! We looked around all morning and found numerous different pods that were all very playful but did not want to swim with us. We see some splashing going on out very wide and streamed out to have a look, we were in 98m…
By: Tara Davey
29 August 2022 – Playful Whales and Curious Dolphins
2Wild set out this morning with grey skies but calm water on a whale mission. The keen whale watchers were lucky to see about 4 different pods, mostly crusing slowly south back to Antarctica. These pods were slow and lazy but spent a lot of time underwater going for deep dives. After heading further out to…
By: Lindsay Devery
Mugging Humpback Whales
We have had some amazing experiences over the past few days with the southern migrating Humpback Whales being very inquisitive and mugging our boat. Along with that excitement we had a mother and calf slowly making their way north and some monster breaches from numerous other whales over the last 3 days. Photo taken of a…