Anyone seeing whales heading nth and how far out?
Took this pic around Sept/Oct 2011 out the back of Rotto. I'd taken the misses & daughter out to watch the whales migrating south and had a mind blowing experience when a couple of Orcas showed up and we had them swimming beside the boat. I had no idea they were around our shores. Now the misses is always keen to go whale watching in the hope of experiencing this again. I've only ever bothered when they are heading south later in the yr but the misses is onto me asking if they are about at the moment. I'm led to believe when heading nth they are way out wide hence the charterers only go out when they are heading south, plus also they have the calves? So is anyone seeing whales heading nth and how far out?
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carnarvonite
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Whales
We have had reports of the first groups passing out off Carnarvon in the last week or two
Rig
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ocean reef
We saw some a long way out of ocean reef on saturday, I would say they were about 30nm out, I was about 20nm out and they were further out than us
Happy Hooker
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Saw some last week (4/6)
Went out from Lancelin , they were about 15nm out.
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In the past we have seen them
In the past we have seen them inside the channel heading north off Fremantle. Last year, there was one near fish rocks.
Brucesta
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none off Karratha yet but it
none off Karratha yet but it won't be long. We had some stragglers last year still coming back down the coast in November which was wwaaayyy late for them
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dkonig82
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saw some off Jurien on
saw some off Jurien on Saturday. Not too far out, maybe 15nm.
A couple of groups around. One breached far too close to the boat for my liking
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Bodie
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Saw some on Saturday just
Saw some on Saturday just south of Rotto, about 16-17 mile out... not sure on what type, but bloody big! looked like submarines when jumping out of the water
duges66
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Currently Nth of Cape Range /
Currently Nth of Cape Range / Exmouth have only seen 1 a couple of days ago. Quite a spread from here down to Rotto. Home Wed so will look to head out on Sunday (wife friendly weather forecast) in the hope they are about. Scout some new ground and drop a line. Whales will be a bonus. Cheers guys
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Yep that time again stand by
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dant
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my last 2 trips ive seen
my last 2 trips ive seen whales, one almost landed in the boat just behind rotto - he put on a great show, the others were of Jurien heading south.
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Be a buzz .. at the same time
Be a buzz .. at the same time , I think I'd lose a nugget or two thinking a half blind feral one was going to headbutt the boat .
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mate it frightened the fk out
mate it frightened the fk out of me - i had my back turned to that side, but i was thinking the same thing - i was hoping one of them wasnt going to wipe the boat out - then did a 360 about 100 metres away - was an awesome splash.
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Orcas
I heard the orcas went past Jurien about 3 weeks ago, saw quite a few posts/photos. They normally head north up to Exxy late May early June and hunt the smaller first years or calves. In 6 years of Exxy I never got to see them but know of quite a few lucky buggers that saw them. I've still got the video at home of when they hunted down that small whale in front of the whale shark boats, pretty crazy stuff. Best I've managed to do is see a pod of around 100 false killers, pretty impressive, but I'm sure not as good as the real thing.
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petermac
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south west bank
when I was at south west bank last Saturday we saw two whales (not shore what type) breaching and having a good old time flapping around on the surface they kept moving towards us last time they breached they were only 15 m away and it was then it twigged how big they are and we quickly moved out of there way as they were way bigger then our boat
Noxious
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Saw some humpbacks at the
Saw some humpbacks at the west end of rotto, quite close to shore on saturday (maybe 1km from the rottnest shoreline)...