September 17, 2025

We ventured offshore on Wednesday to some beautiful sea conditions that made spotting whales as easy as it comes! Our trip started with a single, sleepy humpback whale, Jabiru. After spending some time with this whale, we were able to spot the spout of another whale out in the distance. We said goodbye to Jabiru and then made our way over to our next humpback whale, Clamp.

Clamp Kick-feeding

Clamp filtering saltwater

Distant fluke

Clamp put on an incredible display of surface feeding behavior while we sat by idle. Eventually, we decided to press on, seeing another whale nearby. On our way over, we got a brief glimpse at a blue shark.

Blue shark dorsal and tail fin

Our next whale turned out to be Valley the humpback whale, who was spending quite a bit of time underneath the surface.

On our travels back in towards Rye, we encountered Clamp once again, but this time there was another pair of humpback whales traveling through the area. After waiting out a surfacing, these whales were revealed to be Grommet and Partition.

Grommet diving