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Whale Watching

Whale Watching:
Baja, Mexico: Grey Whale Watching | Grey Whale Watching & Camping
Sea of Cortez Wildlife Voyage | Whales and Wildlife Cruise | Magdalena Bay
Isla Mujeres: Whale Shark Tours

Silver Bank, Dominican Republic: Encounter the Humpback Whales of the Silver Bank
Whales of the Silver Bank Expedition | Whale Weeks - Snorkel Adventures

Tahiti: Humpback Whales Migration Tonga: Whales of Tonga (Humpback Whales)

Whale Watching

Humpback Whales. Photo courtesy of Nautilus Explorer and Photographer: Jeff Bozanic.

Whale Watching: Baja Mexico - Magdalena Bay, San Ignacio Bay

These Gray Whales travel the farthest of any whale, 5000 miles from their feeding grounds in the high Arctic. Magdelena Bay is home to the thousands of whales from end of January through February. Here you will observe the sights of baby whales at play, or the resounding splash of single males and females in their dramatic display called breaching.

Whale Watching: Tonga

Each winter nature calls the magnificent humpback whales to return to the pristine waters of Vava'u (part of the Kingdom of Tonga) to frolic, mate and breed. Humpback Whale season is late July through October. We have liveaboard, land-based or kayak whale watching trips available to help you spend time in the water photographing the humpback whales, watching or just reveling in the awesome grandeur that will stay with you for the rest of your life. From the sight of the first breach at day break to the silhouette of whales resting at sundown will surely fill you with unbridled emotion and wonder at the magic our oceans hold for us.

The Vava'u group comprises over 60 picturesque little islands, palm trees and white sand beaches. Just up the harbor a few minutes away lies a magnificent wreck dive the "Clan McWillian" with decks and that are covered in these wonderful flower like clumps of soft coral. Impressive cave dives, wonderful valleys of gorgonian fans, swim throughs, pristine hard coral reefs of all varieties, drift diving on walls and reefs, colorful soft corals, outcrops and a myriad of fish.

Whale Watching: Rurutu, Tahiti

Rurutu is the most northerly of the Austral Islands, located 355 miles southwest of Tahiti. A very pretty and hilly island with a circumference of 20 miles. Rurutu's main village is called Moerai, and home to the islands 2000 inhabitants.

Rurutu does not have the wide lagoons found in the Society Islands. Limestone grottoes with stalactites and stalagmites invoice explorers. This is great for snorkeling, diving and watching whales.

The most special attraction and most important to divers are the arrival of the HUMPBACK whales from July through October! Here you are able to get very close on snorkel. This is a very remote place and the accommodation is very basic. Who cares when you have the whales to yourself!

Whale Watching: Great Barrier Reef, Australia

"Minkes" are baleen whales; they have no teeth but rather a series of horny plates hanging from the roof of the mouth, enabling them to engulf masses of water containing schools of small fish or krill. As the throat contracts, water is forced between the baleen plates and out of the mouth, but the fishes and krill are trapped on a meshwork formed by fine bristles on the inside of the baleen plates. The throat of minke whales can expand enormously, like a pelican's pouch, engulfing masses of water containing schools of fishes or krill.

On the northern Great Barrier Reef the whales arrive in June through July. They usually stay around visiting snorkelers for up to an hour or more in small pods. These whales are very friendly and often times are curious about us, enabling U/W photographers a great opportunity for great shots.

The Great Barrier Reef is about the only place noted on earth where the dwarf minke whales regularly approach boats and divers. It is thus especially important that encounters with whales be managed carefully. With such care, it should be possible for divers to continue to have what is one of the ultimate wildlife experiences, diving with whales!

Whale Article: Whales ... We owe them an apology
By Philip Hoare
Article URL: http://www.slate.com/id/2246776/

Philip Hoare is the author of The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea.