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Category: Whale trip Photos

Saturday Earth Day whale watch 2023

What better way to spend a Saturday but on the ocean and celebrate Earth Day! As part of the celebration, each adventurer on the Jersey Girl receive a whale watching t shirt. It was a large group of adventures, ready for an exciting time. Most people had not seen a whale before even though they […]

Humpback Whale breaching off Belmar last night

Humpback whale watching 2023 Belmar New Jersey

There was a humpback whale breaching about a 1.5 miles of the Belmar Beach around 16th Ave. last night. Whale watching season in New Jersey runs from April thru the beginning of December . This is the view from the boardwalk come out with us on the Jersey Girl whale watching boat to see it […]

Easter Sunday Whale Watching trip

Spent the afternoon on the water. Yes, it is whale watching time again! It has been a little over 4 months since the last whale watching trip. Today was opening day: the first trip of the year with Jersey Shore Whale Watch. It was a great crowd and the anticipation was high. Many of the […]

5 whales this morning off Belmar Beach March 8th 2023

How do I know it was five whales today ? 2 were way north of Me off the 9th ave jetty, and two more were south of me ear 16th ave 1.5 miles offshore, the 5th whale was 3 miles offshore near 16th ave @CanonUSA I need high powered binocs with a decent jpg capture […]

December 2nd whale watching trip report

Linda joined us today so she writes:   Cold, December, storm tomorrow; all reasons not to go whale watching. Turns out, it was probably the best day ever of whale watching at the Jersey Shore! A group of students from MRHS were on board and they were ready for an adventure. They had a trip […]

November 26th Whale Watching Trip, ok this was amazing.

As usual i will let Linda tell the story: Every time I think it is my last whale watching trip of the year, another opportunity arises! We headed north out of the inlet ( been going south for the past few weeks). Northern Gannetts kept us entertained as we sailed past Long Branch. Off of […]

Wednesday afternoon whale watch Nov 23rd 2022 perfect weather

I will let Linda do the write up later : Here is Linda’s trip review: An absolutely gorgeous day in November to spend on the ocean whale watching. The day before Thanksgiving, who would think we would be able to whale watch? Bill brought hot chocolate and donuts to enjoy on the boat! It was […]

Saturday Afternoon Finbacks and more Nov. 19th 2022

  Linda writes: Temperature was to stay in the low 40’s but had the opportunity to go whale watching! Not a hard decision as this is whale migration season and you truly never know what you may see. Nice size group of people on the trip, allowing everyone to stay in the heated cabin if […]

Weekend Update November 12 , 13th 2022 whale watching

Saturday and Sunday November 12th and 13th We didn’t go whale watching as the seas were too rough. The whales were still out here close o shore so we hope to be out there this coming weekend. Here are a couple photos i took Sunday with our drone whales off Belmar beach all day Sunday […]

Thursday Whale Watching trip report November 10th 2022

We found 3 humpback whales today about 2 miles from the inlet what a beautiful day on the ocean. I wore a sort sleeve shirt for most of the trip it was that nice out.We have stormy weather coming in for the rest of the weekend so no trips for a few days. Passenger Barbra […]

Sunday Whale Watching Trip Report

We guarantee you will see a whale

The whale was seen in the distance but was elusive so everyone on board got a nice day on the ocean and a free return trip in 2023 to come out and see a humpback whale

5 whales on A Saturday afternoon sunset trip November 5th 2022

I’ll will post about 30 photos later this morning Linda writes: Whale report in 1 word: WOW! Just kidding but it does say what a spectacular day it was! We headed out of the inlet going south as that is we’re the reports of whales were coming in from. Earlier in the morning, people were […]

Friday November 4th 2022 whale watching report

Linda writes the review today Sunset Whale Watching tour? Sounded like a great idea! When I got to Belmar it was foggy and wasn’t sure if we would be able to go out on the water or if so, would we be able to see a whale? We went out and saw what looked like […]

Weekend whale watching schedule Belmar Marina

We are going whale watching Friday and Saturday this weekend get tickets now we might add a Sunday trip also , whales have been in Belmar and Avon by the sea all week, great weather forecast this is it folks get out here now!

Sunday Whale Watching Trip Report Oct. 30th 2022

We guarantee you will see a whale

Well it had to happen and today it did, no whale.. So everyone got a nice sunny fall afternoon on a calm ocean and a free return trip. Today was one of our rare misses this year. The 2022 season has been the best season yet, but not today. We still have a few more […]

Wednesday small group in our whale watching trip big surprise 10/26//22

After a foggy morning, I decided to take advantage of a warm fall afternoon yesterday, and I’m glad I did. It was clear until heading to the Ocean Ave Bridge and it got quite foggy again. Reports were that it was patchy fog, so off we went headed south where whales have been for the […]

Saturday afternoon sunset whale watching trip Oct. 22nd

Perfect weather on the flat calm ocean Saturday for whale watching trip Belmar Marina , We were able to stay local as the whale was in Spring Lake, just 2 miles from Belmar beach  a great afternoon trip. Yesterday’s Whale watching trip was so much fun! Started out from Belmar and headed south. There were […]

14 Hour Trip Report Chicken Canyon WOW

The weather was beautiful the ocean was calm we were in 550 feet of water where the whales can really disappear any come up when then need air! Here are some of the photos from the trip Friday 10/21/2022 Offshore Trip Species Report What was supposed to be a trip out to the Triple Wrecks […]

Sunday Oct, 16th Whale Watching Report

Passenger Sandy writes todays report, she takes great photos here is here report and photos: We had to travel farther today to find a whale. We went as far as Seaside Heights. So glad the ocean was much calmer than yesterday. On the way we saw some dolphins around Manasquan. They must have been feeding […]

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 […]