Archive for June 27, 2014

What are your plans for the weekend..?  Perhaps you’ll spend your time patrolling the southern Ocean protecting innocent Whales from illegal Whaling, Maybe you’ll travel to the other side of the world to address International diplomats, how about making  an award winning documentary to raise awareness of the greatest dangers our world today faces? If these things don’t seem possible how about dedicating your weekend to educating the youth of today about the dangers our oceans face tomorrow if drastic changes aren’t implemented now?

Seem too complicated? Well perhaps your right;

Its official Ladies and Gentleman Migaloo is well and truly on his way. The last official sighting of our friendly gentle giant was at 3:45pm  off the Coast of Crescent heads.

This means the charismatic Humpback will be passing into the Sunshine state with-in the next few’s hours making your prime opportunity to spot him tomorrow morning.

As you can imagine excitement is building here on the Gold Coast, this unique Humpback is the talk of the town, Everyone is hoping to get that once in

With the 2014 Whale watching Season officially open and ready for you; We thought this would be the ideal time to make sure you were all up to date with all of your Humpback facts before you come cruising with Whales in Paradise along the iconic Gold Coast coastline otherwise known as the “Humpback Highway”.

This year we can expect to see around 20,000 Humpback Whales on their annual migration from their feeding grounds in the cold waters of Antarctica to the warm tropical waters of far North Queensland, This

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Ladies and Gentlemen; Drum roll please! The star of the 2014 Whale watching season has once again made his first grand appearance; the one and only Migaloo. The elusive white albino Humpback wowed Whale watchers on Tuesday morning off Greencape in Eden.

This is the first official sighting of Migaloo (Meaning “White fella” in Aboriginal) for the 2014 Whale watching season.

The first official sighting of last years 2013 Whale Watching Season was on the 25th of July around 10km East of Port Douglass, In far North Queensland. It is not uncommon

What an amazing morning for whale watching, today’s whale sightings were absolutely amazing. This morning we had some aerial footage taken which truly shows how majestic the great Humpback Whales are. Checkout our Facebook feed to see the short video of the whales at play facebook.com/whalesinparadise

7:30am Sightings Report
1x Humpback Whale playing alongside the vessel for approximately 1hr
20x Common Dolphins

11:00am – Sightings Report
4x Humpback Whales came within 20 metres of Mahi Mahi
3x Common Dolphins

2:30pm – Sightings Report
6x Humpback Whales were sighted in close proximity of Mahi Mahi and with 3x other

The Red Faces 2014 event was held on 10^th  May 2014  at the Arkaba Hotel in Adelaide SA. The evening was a great success and we are pleased to announce that $23,531.00 was raised for Grow SA!

Grow SA services and programs provide a peer supported program for growth & personal development to people with a Mental Illness and the funds from this event is being put towards a program implementing support for younger people in Schools in Adelaide. 

Wow what an amazing morning of whale watching on the Gold Coast, although a little drizzly the weather didn’t dampen the spirits of the whale watchers. The Gold Coast Whale Watching season kicked off today the 31st of May 2014 with a big splash this year for the passengers and team at Whales in Paradise. 2x whales were  spotted about 4km’s off the Gold Coast Seaway. The lucky passengers onboard were treated to these Humpback whales putting on a real show breaching (jumping out of the water) and tail slapping

Join Sea Shepherd for the National Whale Day at Broadwater Parklands from 9 am till 5 pm, we are again hosting a paddle out, spot prizes for the best costume!

Raffles and an art auction for an amazing board that is being hand painted by Jhana Bowen.

This event is plastic free so please bring your reusable bottles or purchase one on the day from one of the stalls.

2 – 5 pm 

Chill out with Lauren Napier, Steve Andrews, Felicity Lawless, Nathan Kaye and The LyricalPLUS great food, coffee and face painting for the kids!Paddle