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Saturday Oct, 15th 2022 whale watching report

Frequent Passenger Linda writes:   Another whale watching adventure! Didn’t have to go very far to say hello to our whale but he was difficult to really locate him at the beginning. Saw a spout near the Seastreak and then a second but then it took a while before we saw it again. It was […]

Sunday funday whale watching 9/25/2022

Passenger Linda write our review today: With a storm coming in for the late afternoon/evening, I wondered what type of whale watching day it would be. Well the water was rougher than yesterday but it was okay and at times like a ride on a small roller coaster. The kids on the boat were having […]

Saturday 9/24/2022 whales 4

4 whales today here is passenger Sandy’s report: We watched one whale off of Long Branch for a long time today. It was so close to shore that it didn’t do much. No tail or anything. At one point we were waiting for it to surface and it came up quite a distance away. Then […]

Saturday and Sunday September 17th and 18th whale watching report

As per Linda On a beautiful day, you go whale watching. Today Sandy spotted the whale first!!!! It was off of Long Branch. This whale would hang out a lot on the surface and then do a deeper dive. Hanging near the surface allowed for viewing the pectoral flippers that seem to glow a beon […]

Friday September 16th 2022 2whales close to home or 3

We had another great day it whale watching close to home we found the first whale in Avon by the sea and the 2nd whale in Bradley beach it was perfect weather about 75 people on the boat flat calm seas everyone enjoyed it! Plenty of fall whale watching season tickets available join us soon.

Wednesday September 14 2022 trip report Jersey Shore Whale Watch

We had two sets of wheels off of the sea bright deal New Jersey beach area on Wednesday a wonderful trip beautiful skies beautiful fall weather nice size crowd about 60 passengers everyone enjoyed a beautiful day in the ocean seeing whales and dolphins a total of four humpback whales were seen our season runs […]

Labor Day Monday 2022 trip report a Trifecta!

What an amazing season its been, our best ever Linda writes: Once again, many first time whale watching passengers who says that they never knew whales were in the NJ area. Well, now they know! We went north out of the inlet and kept heading north towards the Highlands and Sandy Hook. Sure enough, first […]

Sunday September 4th trip report

Sunday 9/4/22 Species Report 2 humpback whales 🐋 30+ bottlenose dolphins 🐬 And a flying tuna! Sandy writes the report: We found another whale off of Long Branch today. This time it was #91. He was a little more cooperative and zig zagged back and forth on both sides of the both. He did a […]

Saturday Sept 3rd report

From passenger Sandy: We saw two whales today, which is great, but the best part of whale watching is the people you meet. I got there early as usual and wasn’t even the first one there. Met some very nice people that drove from Binghamton. Another couple from Montreal was visiting friends. There were lots […]

Friday trip report 9/02/2022

Friday 9/2/2022 Species Report Morning Trip 100+ bottlenose dolphins 1 osprey Friday 9/2/2022 Species Report Afternoon Trip 1 humpback whale Dozens of cownose rays Several ospreys Here are some great photos taken by passenger Vicky

Saturday afternoon whales and more Aug. 28th sharks!

Saturday 8/27/22 Species Report 2 humpback whales! 🐋 10 bottlenose dolphins 🐬 Dozens of cownose rays 4 blacktip sharks 🦈 1 osprey 🦅 I took it easy photographing the whales today, our dear friend Ann Maries , who sell all the merchandise on board for us has been sick> I could tell I have been […]

Friday afternoon whale watching adventure 8/26/2022

Passenger Patty writes today: This. Is. Why. I. Go. This is #40. An approximately 11 year old humpback. After looking where some whales were supposed to be, and the ocean turning into a Disney E ticket ride, we were heading back into the marina. Then, just south of Bradley Beach, this fella shows up. It […]

Wednesday reports 3 trips

Wednesday 8/24/22 Species Report Morning Trip 1 humpback whale 🐋 Cownose rays Ospreys 🦅 Wednesday 8/24/22 Species Report Afternoon Trip 2 humpback whales 🐋 Cownose rays Ospreys 🦅 Wednesday late afternoon trip 3 humpback whales

Monday Aug 22nd Whale watching trip report

We had a great day whale watching today we saw 3 humpback whales with one of the smallest crowds we have had all summer about 35 people on board. Everyone had great sight lies and most were first timers who could not believe they were seeing humpback whales with the jersey shore in the background […]

Sunday Aug. 21st whale watching report

Linda writes: Another beautiful day on the water! Headed out of the inlet and went north because there were reports of whales between Long Branch and Sandy Hook. With NYC serving as the background, we found 2 humpback whales. They are 2 whales we have seen several times this year: # 11 and # 73. […]

34 or more breaches Thursday photos

Ok so here are the photos, a couple are a landing where I missed the breach I’m looking right and the whale breaches to the left, but you get the idea. I would love to see the photos you got also email me [email protected]  

Thursday the most amazing whale watching trip photos Aug 18th 2022

So this must be peak whale watching season here in New Jersey. Book your trip now can you tell where we were today ?   Linda writes the review today : Wow! It seems this summer I have used that word many times to describe a particular whale watching trip. Several times I have said […]

Monday Aug. 15th Report 3 whales

Another great day whale watching a full boat, come out whale watch with the best whale watching tour on the East Coast Jersey Shore Whale Watch Here are some photos from today

Saturday August 13th report

5 whales! That is right 5 whales today a beautiful day on the ocean,very calm ocean conditions photos will be posted Sunday

Thursday August 11th trip report

Thursday 8/11/22 Species Report 2 humpback whales 🐋 30 bottlenose dolphins 🐬 1 osprey 🦅 1 common loon (out of season) 🪶 1 unidentified shearwater 🪶

Wednesday Aug. 10th trip report

We had a active lunge feeding whale today Wednesday Aug. 10th Wednesday 8/10/22 Morning Trip Species Report 50 bottlenose dolphins 🐬 Wednesday 8/10/22 Afternoon Trip Species Report 1 humpback whale 🐋 1 osprey 🦅 1 cownose raywhale

Saturday Afternoon whale watching report Aug. 6th 2022

We had another beautiful day at Whale WAtching Naturalist humpback whale off the Sandy Hook we were out on the ocean for about 3 1/2 hours beautiful day a little bit of a bumpy road on the way back because of winter picked up people who wanted to get sprayed by the ocean waves got […]

Friday 4 whales

What an awesome trip Friday August 5th We had a Minke whale off the Beach just North of Asbury Park, that was our first Minke whale this year.The Minke whales are very fast movers and are about 20 feet long this was a big one.We then encountered 2 humpback whales near the beach in Deal […]

Thursday Whale Watching Trip was a 2 for!

Linda writes: What a day! As we were approaching the last bridge before we “head off into mammal territory”, the ocean, I took a picture. It was 1:33 pm on my camera. I already had spout picture at 1:38! I didn’t bother with some of the earlier spouts. There were 2 whales, # 73 and […]

2 trips Wednesday both successful

Early morning Dolphin/shark watching trip. Danielle saw a shark about 3 feet down in the water but that was it for sharks. Trip was so refreshing in light of the temps reaching over 90 today. Found dolphins within 9 minutes of leaving the dock! Felt like the dolphins were giving us a tour to the […]

Monday whale watching trip report

We had a very active humpback whale today Monday August 1st.This has been our best season ever, tell your friends we are booking trips from Belmar and Point Pleasant marinas 7 days a week. Jersey Shore whale Watch has over 10 trips a week right now. Grab your friends and enjoy a day on the […]

Sunday whale watching report

We had another successful whale watching trip once again we were off the sea bright Sandy Hook area about 5 miles offshore oil put on a great show for everybody everybody and all sides of the boat got tail shots here’s a few from today

Trip report Saturday July 30th Jersey shore whale watch

I knew today was going to be special as i was looking out at the ocean views from my home and saw several hundred dolphins going by in the early morning light. The whale watching trip did not disappoint, there was no need for our iron clad whale watching guarantee. “If you don’t see a […]

Friday July 29th trip report

More info to follow here are a couple photos from todays close encounter I have heard it said many times that every whale watching trip is different. This one was surely different in all positive ways! Within 15 minutes of leaving the dock, we came across some dolphins. What I thought was a small pod […]

Trip report July 27th

We had a new humpback whale today, a beautiful day with a pretty full boat. Joking us soon this is peak whale watching season in New Jersey, we also saw dolphins on the morning trip. A great day on the ocean and our trip from point Pleasant was also success in seeing a whale.\

Point Plesant Whale Watching trips Wednesday and Sunday

We have been seeing whales on all our trips from point pleasant so if you are in the seaside heights area or Bayhead look for our point pleasant trips every Wednesday afternoon and Sunday 3pm for tickets call us at 732.451.6003 or buy online below you can also change your date at no extra fee

Saturday 4 different humpback whales and more

Linda writes the review today: A little girl on the boat had a shirt on that said, “ride with Unicorns and swim with mermaids. It was that type of magical day! After all, It is World Whale and Dolphin Day! We were still at the dock when an American Bald Eagle flew overhead and down […]

Friday afternoon 2 humpback whale and more breaching

Well there are those special days and this was one of them.The days where you think its hot ill enjoy just being on the ocean and the a humpback whale breaches totally out of the water.Here are the first few photos, share with your friends its been an amazing season. We had string off the […]

Wednesday success continues whale and ospreys today

We had another great whale watching trip today Wednesday we are up in the Sandy Hook area we saw very active humpback whale and an osprey feeding trying to fish back to its nest think about coming with us Friday we are going to go looking for dolphins shorts and seabirds on the morning trip […]

Sunday whale watching trip success

We had a great and relaxing day watching a humpback whale off the coast of Avon by the sea today. The humpback was very boat friendly and came right up to the boat mugging for photos.   Frequent passenger Linda writes her review of the Sunday whale watching trip: “This was such a unique whale […]

Whales dolphins pelagic birds an amazing Saturday

    Here are two iPhone photos by passenger Drew D. From Saturdays trip, great photos amazing iPhone photos, if anyone else got some send us a copy to [email protected] Saturday 7/16/22 Species Report 2 humpback whales 🐋 Hundreds of bottlenose dolphins 🐬 stealing the show as usual:) 6+ Wilson’s storm petrels 4+ shearwaters 2+ […]

Plenty of dolphins today

What an absolutely beautiful day to go whale watching.: 80’s and mostly clear sky. We were all excited to go find a whale. Heading out of the inlet, we saw 2 Great Egrets and the Osprey on the nest. Saw some large areas of bait fish on the way north but no whales or sharks. […]

No Whale spotted on the Wednesday trip plenty of dolphins

Well we made our best effort,but sometimes the whales elude us and we traveled for 3 solid hours looking and we did find the following Wednesday 7/13/22 Species Report 1 group of 10 bottlenose dolphins 🐬 1 group of 30 bottlenose dolphins 🐬 4 cownose rays (why is there no stingray emoji!) 4 ospreys 🦅

Sunday Funday 2 lunge feeding humpback whales today off Asbury Park

Greeting From Asbury Park, and the 2 humpback whales put on quite a show Linda writes How do you follow an incredible whale watching day like yesterday? By having one just as incredible ! Okay, maybe slightly less incredible but what a great day. Weather was perfect and the seas fairly calm for this adventure. […]

Saturday , a trip like no other! 4 whales and wow more

Linda writes: Wow oh wow oh wow! What a day. As we were getting ready to depart the inlet, we saw the Shark Week Blimp that is traveling up the eastern coast. Fun start. Saw the Osprey and Black crowned Night heron. Off we went heading northeast towards the Long Branch area where they were […]

3 whales Friday the streak continues

Friday 7/8/22 Species Report 3 humpback whales! 🐋 100+ dolphins 🐬 1 osprey 🦅 Frequent passenger Patty writes: Quite a day when they have to decide “which whale should we go see 1st?” There were 3, possibly 4 to pick from! We saw more than one shark feeding on the way out to the whales […]

Thursday afternoon our amazing streak continues

Passenger Linda writes Another day on the water although conditions were not ideal. Heavy cloud cover in Belmar and south, blue sky to the North East. Heading out of the inlet saw the Osprey and the Black Criwbed Night- Heron. Went North to where they have been seeing the whale all week, around the Long […]

July 6th whale watching trip, the streak continues!

Well I will to our own horn we had another fantastic day of whale watching both of Longbranch pier Village got some great photos and some video that I still need to upload you’ll be able to see it all here tonight or tomorrow morning here’s some photos from today if you were on the […]

July 5th trip success two humpback whales for Tuesday

July 4-5, 2022 The fourth of July included sunny skies, calm winds, and stunning seas, a perfect combination to celebrate our independence day. Each trip provided its own unique sightings the 5th of July was choppy seas We headed on our journey north towards a fresh whale sighting report by another boat of a whale […]

July 4th Monday whale watching trip was successful

A perfect weather day I will post a few more in the morning so check back. From Linda A beautiful July 4 th spent on the water. Sounds pretty good to me! Add in seeing a whale and it sounds great. Within the inlet saw a Great Egret and then the nest with 1 Osprey […]

July 3rd trip report whales dolphins and more

Written by Linda, thanks as always Linda Another fantastic adventure. Met a couple who are originally from Chile and live in Georgia. Had a lot in common and they became part of our whale watching group! We headed north because there was a report of 2 whales. But prior to that saw a few dolphins […]

Thursday amazing trip

June 30th Thursday afternoon was full of wonderful surprises! On a beautiful clear sunny day we met a shy thresher shark, got a chance to see not one but three different humpback whales! Off of Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach far near cargo ships we spent time watching each showing their own behavior. We got […]

Wednesday report another great day

LInda’s report There were 3 whales spotted yesterday so the expectations were high for today. The weather was perfect to enjoy a day on the ocean. Saw the Osprey and the Black crested night heron and headed north towards Sea Bright and Sandy Hook but no luck. Everyone tried but could not spot a whale. […]

Sunday afternoon whale watching trip success

Sunday afternoon was an exciting trip and a full one with the sun blazing at 85°F! Off of Sandy Hook we found a beautiful humpback whale, about 30ft long moving rather quickly in its journey. We got to witness multiple feeding lunges, great shots of its dorsal fins, and a beautifully straight view of the […]

Saturday whale watching report June 25th 2022

  Written by frequent passenger Sandy: Beautiful day on the water. Probably the first time this year I left my winter coat at home. We headed north since two whales were spotted up by Sea Bright earlier. As we were going we saw a lot of birds and unfortunately, a lot of balloons also. ☹️ […]

Friday June 24th trip report

Photos by frequent passenger Patty of the dolphins today We saw a couple Ospreys and about 50 dolphins today. We did not see a whale so everyone onboard get to come again this year to see a humpback whale, some times they do this

Thursday June 23rd whale watching report.

We saw some dolphins and a sunfish, no whale but everyone got a free return trip to use this year on Jersey SHore Whale watch. We guarantee you will see a whale on our trip, sometimes it takes more than one trip! we went from the n=marina in Belmar along the shoreline north past Asbury […]

Monday afternoon whale watching tour Long Branch NJ Pier Village

Monday 6/20/22 Species Report 1 bald eagle 🦅 2 ospreys 🦅 1 ocean sunfish 🐟 1 humpback whale 🐋 1 unidentified sea turtle 🐢 A beautiful afternoon of whale watching here is what passenger Kelly wrote in here review: Kelly hoherchak My family had the most amazing trip whale watching found and spent a long […]

Sunday whale watching breaching and more

I would say today was the best or 2nd best trip of the season, we had tailing throwing humpback whale , tail slapping humpback whale , breaching multiple times humpback whale, and plenty of dolphins.The winds were very strong today,but we were still able to get the the feeding grounds off sandy hook today and […]

Saturday whale watching trip success

 I will add more whale photos from today in the morning  From Linda Today’s sea adventure began before the actual adventure. Weather was iffy and the winds picked up. Flags were straight out meaning they wind was really blowing. There was a possibility that the trip would be cancelled at the last minute. The positive […]

Friday whale watching trip one if the best this season

Passenger Linda writes: When the temp is going to be over 90, it makes great sense to go out on a boat on the ocean. Went Whale watching with a small crowd of people from places like Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and also some relatively local like New Brunswick, Asbury Park, Lavalette and Belmar. As we left […]

Wednesday we had two trips and reports

Wednesday morning we had our first dolphin tour its a fun just 2 hour tour check out the dolphins we dont need to go far to see them . Absolutely gorgeous sunny day on the ocean join us soon, Then we had a normal 1:30pm whale watching trip,, and people were able to observe sea […]

Plenty of Dolphins Monday , no whale

Linda writes When it is 88 humid degrees what better place to be but on a boat in the ocean? Funny thing is, what started as clear skies became a mixture of storm looking clouds and haze. We headed north out of the inlet and the haze was quite dense. We came across some dolphins […]

Saturday afternoon whale watching report

From Passenger Linda Another whaling adventure. Boat was scheduled for departure at 1:30 pm. A little after 1 pm, you can see the rain moving towards us abd so we went inside to the cabin. So glad we did as it was lightening with wind gust and heavy rain. Remarkedly, the rain was mostly vfinished […]

Friday whale watching report

From passenger Linda: Her report Such a great day on the water: weather was perfect and the ocean was calm. Whale watching has become so popular! Today there were people from Germany, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan and those were only the people I spoke to! A woman was celebrating her birthday week (I […]

Sunday whale watching success

I wanted to share this review from today :  This passenger was one of our first 6 passengers on our first trip ever What a fantastic afternoon! We had numerous whale sightings today, and saw dolphins galore! Bill McKim was a fabulous host and runs a great tour! Many thanks to our wonderful captain. Kudos […]

New VIP seating options

We have new vip seating options of reserved seats on the 1st floor and the 2nd floor of the boat, these seats you can purchase or we will be issuing the for free to returning passengers when they are not being used Here is the view from them      

Sunday trip report

This is Linda’s trip report, She loves being on the ocean Spent an absolutely beautiful day on the ocean whale watching! It never gets old as each day is different. We headed out of the inlet and headed north. No activity as we passed through Asbury Park, Deal, Long Branch so we kept headed north. […]

Sunday 3 Great Days of Whale Watching in Belmar NJ

Sunday afternoon was a fantastic whale watching trip. We saw a humpback whale breach over 12 times, including 3 times in a row, the small crowd on the boat was really treated to a special day. I hope you all get a chance to come out whale watching with us. We try very hard to […]

Sunset whale watching trip was awesome

I’m too tired to write s proper post so here is long time passenger Sandy’s report of Saturday night sunset whale watch Whale watching sunset trip tonight! Found two whales and hundreds of dolphins almost immediately. We started following them near Asbury Park and ended up by Belmar and Spring Lake! It was great to […]

Anniversary Whale watching trip did not disappoint

Well today we went out on our anniversary trip whale watching tours in May 2018 We were treated to a great show today Facebook post by longtime passenger Sandy: Fifth Anniversary whale watching trip was a great success! Beautiful day on the water. We found dolphins right away by Asbury Park and then more as […]

Our 5th anniversary trip is Wednesday

5 years to the day May 18th 2018 was our first trip on the smaller boat the Skylarker.Since then we have used many different boats for whale watching. Join us Wednesday for a nice 5 hour trip and celebrating 5 years of running whale watching tour from the Belmar Marina. We will have many surprises […]

Sunday was a challenging trip some dolphins and free trip for all

Sunday the weather finally allowed us to go whale watching. The ocean water was a nice 55 degrees and there was considerable fog at times during the trip. We saw dolphins off of Seabright and that was it. On the trip where the weather just kept changing constantly the ocean condition was fine it was […]

Rare Sunset Whale Watching Trip

We are going whale watching Saturday May 21st at 5:30pm join us sunset and whales If you’ve been dreaming of watching whales in the wild, you can do so right from Belmar on this 3 hr sunset cruise. Belmar is known as an area for humpback whales as hundreds of the giant creatures travel this […]

Simply Saturday was one of the best trips in 5 years of whale watching

Saturday’s trip started as just a beautiful day on the ocean we headed north towards Sandy Hook area. Where were we in for a surprise, the first humpback whale we saw I was putting on a good show I was taking some pictures that I said let me put Facebook live on so the people […]

Best trip of the year so far

What an Amazing Day Whale Watching!! Everyone who was on the boat knew how fortunate they were to be whale watching with us today! We had one of our most exciting days to date.  We had a report of two whales all the way up past Sandy Hook and even though it was farther than […]

Wednesday April 20th trip report Dolphins for miles

We had a nearly full boat for a nice 3 hour tour today where we saw miles and miles of dolphins. We didn’t see a whale today so people on todays trip had awesome weather and get to come again this season to make sure they see a whale. Here are some photos from todays […]

Saturday trip report 5 for 5 the streak continues

Who is saw the whale off of Seabright today ocean conditions were rougher than normal so we decided not to try to follow the well and we will give people who are on today’s trip a free trip so they can come out and really experience we are watching we did see some dolphins it […]

That’s 4 trips s for 4 whale sightings 100% streak continues

Four for Four! Another amazing day with Jersey Shore Whale Watching! We never know what we will encounter or how the trip will go and this trip was no exception. We headed north to where our sightings have been but didn’t find anything. We traveled even further north past Sandy Hook but could not find our […]

Whale Watching Trip Wed April 13th photos and trip report

Here are some photos from todays trip. Say hello to “Ocean” that is the name the children on the boat named our new whale. So this year if we see him again we can say hello “ocean”, thanks Theo   We had a humpback whale plenty of birds including two Ospreys in a nest and […]

Photos from Sundays whale watching trip

We had another nice trip today whale watching it was cold but still beautiful with the wind making NYC skyline light up from the boat We had one possibly two humpback whales today   April 10, 2022 Two for Two Sunday! Today was the second day of our 2022 season and we topped our first […]

Opening Day whale watching Success photos

Our whale watching season started off with a bang! We had perfect spring weather, calm seas and a small crowd. We left the inlet and headed north to search for humpback whales. We were only traveling about 10 minutes when we came upon hundreds of Atlantic Bottle Nose Dolphins. We saw so many dolphins all […]