Go Whale Watching

Go Whale Watching Whale Watching Cruises departing daily from Darling Harbour during the months May to November. Go Whale Watching Sydney is a family owned and operated business.
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We believe in responsible and respectful whale watching practices. As a smaller company we have a strong focus upon customer service from the point of booking to the time we say goodbye after your cruise. We invite you to book a cruise with us and let us share our love of the ocean with you. Our skippers adhere to whale watching industry best practice guidelines and because we watch whales and dol

phins year round we have gained a very good understanding of these animals. Our vessels are purpose built to ensure maximum viewing capability and your safety at all times. We are committed to ensuring that our time spent with the whales does not negatively impact them and provides you with a positive and meaningful experience.

Wishing all our Whale Family a Merry Christmas and all the very best for the New Year ⭐️We hope that you are spending th...
24/12/2024

Wishing all our Whale Family a Merry Christmas and all the very best for the New Year ⭐️
We hope that you are spending the day with family and friends and giving thanks for the gift of life 🎁
We look forward to seeing you for another incredible whale watching season in 2025 🐋💙

From the Team at Go Whale Watching 🐋

The Headlunge!It's December already! and as promised over the next few months and leading up to the 2025 season we will ...
05/12/2024

The Headlunge!

It's December already! and as promised over the next few months and leading up to the 2025 season we will share a few images from and amazing year whale watching 😀 Included in this series a few pretty cool head lunges, which one is your favourite. We love them all 🐋🐋

We are so grateful to EVERYONE for your passion, support and dedication this year 🙂 We have BIG plans ahead and look forward to sharing many more amazing encounters during the 2025 Humpback migration 🐋🐋 See you all soon!

An incredible 2024 whale watching season that surpassed all our expectations with the Humpback whales migrating along th...
10/11/2024

An incredible 2024 whale watching season that surpassed all our expectations with the Humpback whales migrating along the east coast of Australia in record numbers 🐋🐋🐋🐋 Luckily in Sydney, we are right in the middle of the east coast migratory passage, we experience the best of the Northern migration mid May to mid August and then the best of the homeward migration to the south from mid August to early November. During the next few months we will share with you all some of our favourite moments😀 Lets start with a little jumping, everyone loves a good breach, right 🚀🚀

We also would like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone who chose to experience the 2024 migration with the GoWhaleWatching team in particular our hardy passengers, who experienced life on the ocean outside Sydney heads, a little wild at times😀 Thank you also, to our small team of passionate skippers, deckhands, dedicated photographers, wildlife enthusiasts and good friends, who documented every tour this year, rewarding our passengers with some wonderful memories to take home. Congratulations for an amazing year!

We are so grateful to EVERYONE for your passion, support and dedication this year :) We have BIG plans ahead and look forward to sharing many more amazing encounters during the 2025 Humpback migration 🐋🐋 See you all soon!

Yesterday was our final tour of the 2024 whale watching season. WHAT AN AMAZING SEASON IT HAS BEEN!The Whales treated a...
04/11/2024

Yesterday was our final tour of the 2024 whale watching season. WHAT AN AMAZING SEASON IT HAS BEEN!

The Whales treated all onboard Cat Balou to a wonderful display of breaching, tail throwing, pec slapping and tail slapping 🐋🐋 We even witnessed a mini spy hop 😀We spotted 3 separate pods of whales for the day and decided to track the more active of the 3 groups just off Long Reef, a good decision. Well spotted by our deckie😀An ABSOLUTELY wonderful end to our 2024 season and although it is always sad to end the season. It is also encouraging to see so many healthy humpbacks moving north and south along the east coast of Australia, WE LOVE OUR WHALES🐋🐋 The whole Go Whale watching team wish the whales all the luck in the world to get them safely back home where they can all have a good feed and we will hopefully see them again during the 2025 migration🤞A MASSIVE thank you to all our passionate whale watching passengers and THANK YOU WHALES, see you next year!

Our penultimate day watching this amazing migration for 2024! Again all onboard Cat Balou were lucky to find whales on b...
03/11/2024

Our penultimate day watching this amazing migration for 2024! Again all onboard Cat Balou were lucky to find whales on both tours today on a wonderful Sydney spring day ☀️ As we left the heads to the north we spotted a splashy whale just off south head showing a few tail slaps🐋We then managed to locate a pod of six big whales just off Blue fish point and tracked them to north head where they seemed to split into two groups. All onboard Cat Balou were also lucky enough to witness a totally random breach 🚀about 800m from the rear of the vessel.

We tracked a single adult whale during the second tour that was happily cruising home to the south 🐋 Again we were treated to another random jump to the rear of the vessel from a whale that only showed itself the once and that was a breach 🚀

Our final tour for the 2024 season is tomorrow Monday 4th November 12:15pm, lets go find our last whales of season 2024 and what an amazing season it has been !

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

Whales on both tours today🐋We counted at least eight Humpbacks on the first trip all seemingly happy to hang around the ...
02/11/2024

Whales on both tours today🐋We counted at least eight Humpbacks on the first trip all seemingly happy to hang around the middle of the Sydney heads in no real hurry to go in any direction making them a little tricky to track 🙃 A few onboard Cat Balou witnessed a couple of unpredictably random tail throws and as we headed back to base we were visited by the always reliable dolphins 🐬🐬

On our second tour, and as we made our way outside the Sydney heads, we noticed another group of whales and a second pod of two humpbacks further to the north which ended up being joined by another group of whales 🐋🐋Our friendly dolphins 🐬🐬also paid us a visit 😀 No acrobatics today, other than a distant breach, but observing 14 whales for the day is pretty great for this time of the season :)

Next Tours tomorrow Sunday 3rd November 9:00am and 12:15pm lets go find some whales 😀

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

Today as we exited the Sydney heads, Friday funday started just off south head when all onboard Cat Balou came across fo...
01/11/2024

Today as we exited the Sydney heads, Friday funday started just off south head when all onboard Cat Balou came across four humpbacks cruising to the south🐋🐋 The team were treated to an excitable juvenile humpback practicing a couple acrobatic breaches, very cool for all to observe😀 We also came across a beautiful pod of Dolphins, always great to see🐬🐬🐬 We tracked the pod to Bondi before we made our return to base.

We then made our way to the north for the second tour of the day. As we approached Bluefish point we caught up with another pod of three whales and the calf performed a few pec slaps, a small head lunge and a strange lying down backwards floppy manoeuver😀We slowly tracked the group to South head before we headed back up the harbour to prepare for our next weekend adventures🐋🐋

Next Tours tomorrow Saturday 2nd November 9:00am and 12:30pm lets go find some whales 😀

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

After leaving Sydney heads this afternoon we didn’t travel too far before we picked up a large pod of dolphins and our f...
31/10/2024

After leaving Sydney heads this afternoon we didn’t travel too far before we picked up a large pod of dolphins and our first pod of Humpbacks🐋🐋🐋 we initially counter 3 whales that soon turned into a pod of 4 Humpbacks 😀This pod were pretty interested in the sound of Cat Balou and once they were familiar with our presence they showed all on board Cat Balou some close encounters and a few wonderful flukes 🐋😀 We tracked the group back to the heads before they continued their journey to the South. We are sill encountering plenty of humpbacks🥰🥰

We have a few seats available for tomorrow and this weekend come and join the fun 🐋🐋

Next Tours tomorrow Friday 1st November 9:00am and 12:15pm lets go find some whales 😀

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

Another wonderful afternoon on the Tasman Sea with so many humpbacks still passing Sydney. The team traveled 3 nautical ...
30/10/2024

Another wonderful afternoon on the Tasman Sea with so many humpbacks still passing Sydney. The team traveled 3 nautical miles outside the Sydney Heads to catch up with a couple of splashy whales that showed all onboard Cat Balou some beautiful tail action before they continued to complete there journey South to the Antarctica 🐋🐋 On the way back to base we came across a second pod of humpbacks, a few beautiful Albatross and a large pod of dolphins 🐬 🐬🐬 always a crowd pleaser 😀 A excellent end to the tour watching this incredible migration 😀🐋

We have a few seats available for tomorrow, Friday and this coming weekend come and join the fun 🐋🐋

Next Tour tomorrow Thursday 31 Oct 12:15pm lets go find some whales 😀

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

The Cat Balou team forgot to post our pics from last Sunday when we had unusual encounter with a pair of humpback right...
29/10/2024

The Cat Balou team forgot to post our pics from last Sunday when we had unusual encounter with a pair of humpback right in the harbour 🐋🐋 Usually we don’t like to see whales in the harbour as it could be problematic for the animals with the amount of immediate vessel activity close to the whales. The national parks and wildlife and police were monitoring the situation and most of the recreational vessels did the right thing, however a few were way too close. Cat Balou stayed at the regulation distance, as always, and observed the duo for or a while before we left them to make their way outside Sydney Harbour heads., safely making their way to the south 😀🐋

We have a few seats available for tomorrow and this week come and join the fun 🐋🐋

Next Tour tomorrow Wednesday 30 Oct 12:15pm lets go find some whales 😀

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

This morning we found whales at North Head and travelled with them past South Head. These two amazing whales surfaced at...
28/10/2024

This morning we found whales at North Head and travelled with them past South Head. These two amazing whales surfaced at regular intervals and were enjoyable to watch.

Back out for our afternoon cruise and we found a whale off Manly Beach. This single whale soon turned into five whales 🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋 who were inquisitive and playful.

We have a few seats available for tours this week and weekend come and join the fun 🐋🐋

Next Tour tomorrow Wednesday 30 Oct 12:15pm
Let’s go find some whales 😀
Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋
Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

This morning we found whales at North Head and travelled with them past South Head. These two amazing whales surfaced at...
28/10/2024

This morning we found whales at North Head and travelled with them past South Head. These two amazing whales surfaced at regular intervals and were enjoyable to watch.

Back out for our afternoon cruise and we found a whale off Manly Beach. This single whale soon turned into five whales 🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋 who were inquisitive and playful.

We have a few seats available for tours this week and weekend come and join the fun 🐋🐋

Next Tour tomorrow Wednesday 30 Oct 12:15pm
Let's go find some whales 😀
Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋
Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

What an amazing day on the Tasman sea today 🐋🐋We are still watching so many whales passing Sydney and we were so lucky t...
24/10/2024

What an amazing day on the Tasman sea today 🐋🐋We are still watching so many whales passing Sydney and we were so lucky to witness a beautiful acrobatic display from the mum and calf today :)

We have a few seats available for tomorrow and this weekend come and join the fun 🐋🐋

Next Tour tomorrow Friday 25 Oct 9:00am lets go find some whales 😀

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

All onboard Cat Balou enjoyed a stunning day on the ocean watching this amazing migration 🐋🐋We were lucky enough to catc...
23/10/2024

All onboard Cat Balou enjoyed a stunning day on the ocean watching this amazing migration 🐋🐋We were lucky enough to catch up with a mum and calf and followed them as they made their way back to the south in the calm waters just outside Sydney heads☀️ We witnessed a little acrobatics from the calf on approach and noticed some unusual markings on the calf as it dived deep with its mum on it's journey to the south 😀

Next Tours tomorrow Thursday 24 Oct 9:00am & 12:15pm lets go find some whales 😀

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

So many humpback groups passing Sydney on the Southern migration at the moment 🐋🐋🐋 We counted at least 12 whales on the ...
19/10/2024

So many humpback groups passing Sydney on the Southern migration at the moment 🐋🐋🐋 We counted at least 12 whales on the first cruise of the day. As we made our way to a splashy whale out wide we had a breach at the back of Cat Balou that then showed us a few cool head lunges :) We then caught up with very erratic competition pod of eight whales, as they bumped and jostled their way to the south.😀 During the midday trip we decided to focus on pod of two whales, that were for most of the trip, relaxed and enjoying the Sydney city scape. After a team discussion we decided not to "pod hop" and we were rewarded with a wonderful interaction 🐋 As we turned to base we passed a humpback adult entertainer, spotted by our passengers, we slowed Cat Balou to give everyone onboard a good look at what a big whale looks like when it leaves the water :)

Next Tour tomorrow Sunday 20th Oct 9:00am lets go find some whales 😀

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

All onboard Cat Balou enjoyed the most wonderful Sydney weather today ☀️ and witnessed a few distant breaches🐋🐋 and a fe...
18/10/2024

All onboard Cat Balou enjoyed the most wonderful Sydney weather today ☀️ and witnessed a few distant breaches🐋🐋 and a few beautiful tails super close to south head. Lots of backwash close to the cliff so we decided to find another pod of whales due to the comfort of our passengers 😊 We ventured out to the east a little to a splashy whale that went quiet on approach. Then caught up with another duo that performed a few breaches just off Manly on approach 🐋🐋On our way back to base we saw some big breaches back to the North and went to investigate before we turned back to base again, another wonderful day on the ocean 🌊

More amazing weather on the Tasman Sea today and tomorrow should be more of the same ☀️

We still have a few seat available on tomorrow cruise

Next Tours Saturday 19 Oct 9:00am 12:15pm and 3:30pm lets go find some whales 😀

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

We didn’t have to travel far outside the Sydney heads before we spotted our first humpbacks🐋🐋 We ventured out to track t...
17/10/2024

We didn’t have to travel far outside the Sydney heads before we spotted our first humpbacks🐋🐋 We ventured out to track the mum and calf pair were cruising to the south. We noticed quite a bit of activity to the North and as we were working on a plan, luckily a playful calf in the distance, towards Hornby light house, caught our attention😀 Cat Balou and the team decided to check out the Mum and Calf, that proceeded to display a few baby breaches and some lovely tail activity🐋🐋🐋🐋

Stunning Weather on the Tasman today and tomorrow will be more of the same ☀️

We ave a few seat available on tomorrow’s cruise. Next Tour Friday 18 Oct 12:15pm, lets go find some whales 😀

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

Still plenty of Humpbacks passing Sydney at the moment 🐋🐋 All on board Cat Balou spotted three separate mums and calfs a...
16/10/2024

Still plenty of Humpbacks passing Sydney at the moment 🐋🐋 All on board Cat Balou spotted three separate mums and calfs all cruising to the South slowly enjoying the super calm ocean conditions 😀We followed a mum and calf pair for most of the tour that enjoyed short downtimes but never showed any real acrobatics. As we returned to base, after visiting the Seal Colony below Macquarie Lighthouse, we came across a single small humpback close into the rocks that displayed a few tail slaps before it continued it’s journey to the south.

Next Tour Thursday 17 Oct 12:15pm, lets go find some whales 😀

Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration🐋🐋

Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

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Before we share the photos from today we thought we would share a few underwater moments from our epic whale mugging yesterday :) If you want the opportunity to witness amazing whale behaviour during this wonderful migration we still have a few seat available this week 🐋🐋 Please check our website for this weeks availability its going to be fun🙂 Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686 Music by: Bensound License code: OMJV5SQCDBK9DPT0

Our family and crew members from the team have all now safely returned from a short break in Ha-apai in Tonga where they had some breathtaking and magical encounters 🐋 Over the coming weeks we will share a few of the teams movies for you to enjoy 😀 We are pleased to have recently opened Tuesday and Wednesday next week the whale adventures depart 9am & 12:15pm Lets go and find some Whales😉 Please check our website for this weeks availability its going to be fun🙂 Join the team and enjoy watching this amazing migration Book online at https://gowhalewatchingsydney.com.au/ or ring the office direct: 02 6495 1686

Underwater Magic this week with the team :) Thank you Go Pro technicians 🐋🐋 Additional music: https://www.bensound.com

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