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whale watching trip 4 whales!

Wednesday was a great trip. We started with a Minke whale these whales are the smallest of the big whales and are very fast and difficult to photograph Here are a couple images of the Minke whale we saw off Asbury Park Wednesday   Below is a Minke whale off the coast of New Jersey […]

A Finback Whale on our trip!

We were all excited to see a Finback whale on our trip. Danielle our naturalist had been talking for days about 2 Finback whales being off the coast of Sandy Hook. we found it Wednesday.The families on the boat went crazy see to humpback whales come close to the boat and then we saw the […]

whale watching trip review August 19 2020

So Wednesday’s trip was interesting, the morning started with pouring rain possible tornado up near red Bank really dark skies for about an hour. The Jersey shore whale watch phone was ringing off the hook with people asking if their trip was on or off or we going what are we doing. Long story short […]

whale watching new jersey

We go whale watching in New Jersey from April till November, the best months for whale watching on the Jersey Shore.Whales follow the bunker fish and they are now plentiful in our area, join us bring your camera or cellphone, you will get great photos.   Spectacular Marine Wildlife On View For The Lucky Few […]

best whale watching east coast

Our resident naturalist Danilelle Brown point the way. She is working on her PHD at Rutgers in Marine Biology and loves whale research

A lot of people ask the question who has the best,  best whale watching east coast. I wiould say we are right near the top with over 80 trips and we usually  see one or more whales in fact our record is over 80 trips and only 4 misses in 3 years so we ahace […]

Belmar whale watching trip review July 15 2020

Belmar whale watching trip review July 15 2020 Wednesday WAS ANOTHER GREAT DAY WHALE WATCHING THE WHALE WAS JUST 3 MILES OFF THE BEACH IN Asbury Park as we were going north toward the Sandy Hook area Danielle, our amazing naturalist spotted the Humpback whale from about two miles away by seeing its 20-foot-high spout on the horizon. This trip is […]

Belmar whale watching tour review July 12 2020

Commonly referred to as “pec slapping,” this is when a whale lying on it's side repeatedly raises a long pectoral fin into the air and slams it back to the surface with a loud splash. It's another way the whales communicate with each other. ... They may also lie on their back and slap both fins, alternately.

The normality you feel while being outdoor on a warm summer day with the ocean breeze in your face helps you forget about the Covid 19 at least for a few hours, said one passenger yesterday aboard our whale watching trip   Humpback and Dolphin Love 🐋🐬❤️ Tail flukes, pectoral fin slaps, looks like he’s […]

July 24th Whale Watching Trip Photos

Rutgers University whale watching

We had a large film crew from Rutgers University with us on this trip they filmed our naturalist Danielle M. Brown, M.S. @RutgersEENR PhD student studying humpback whale foraging ecology, Lead Humpback Whale Researcher with @gothamwhale , stranding response/necropsy volunteer We had many opportunities to photograph breaching whale, feeding whale, logging whale moves join us […]

Kids love whale watching trips.

We take a very large safe boats to go whale watching some of the boats can hold as many as 80 people so you don’t have to worry about anything about safety on the boats will be a great time great trip kids of all ages love it I’m not sure I would bring an […]

Whales along the jersey shore

I haven’t really seen too many this winter looking forward to seeing more humpback wells of the beach and Belmar should be starting next week or so then just picks up and gets really big in the fall you’ll see a lot of whales in the fall

June 25th Whale Watching Trip Photos

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June 25th Whale Watching Trip Photos The Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) is a North American species of fish in the herring … Humpback whales off the coast of New Jersey feed on Atlantic menhaden We took out over 30 people on the boat today, (the new boat can handle up to 100 people!) and saw […]