Offshore Whale Watching

36 hour offshore whale and pelagic bird trip

By: A. H. Kopelman, Ph.D.

2024 Great South Channel trip is on!!!

We return to our offshore trip offerings for the first time since 2019. This will be a 36 hr trip ~10 hours to the Great South Channel, 14-16 hrs with the whales, 10 hours back

Departs: Sunday, August 11 at 8PM
Returns: Tuesday, August 13 at 3AM

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED! https://vikingfleet.com/offshore-great-south-channel-whale-watch/

Parking is $15 for the duration of your trip. A parking pass will be issued at check in.
Sleeping accommodations: Open bunks in the lower cabin; sleeping bags are suggested.
Excellent food and drinks can be purchased from the galley (cash only), or bring your own cooler with food and drinks.

We are still at 100% success at finding whales on our offshore trips. However, sightings are never guaranteed

For photos and videos from our last 18 years of offshore whale watch trips, go to https://drartiek-cresli.smugmug.com/Great-South-Channel-trips Humpback cooperative feeding

We have now had over 1568 humpback encounters in our trips to the Great South Channel, Stellwagen Bank, and locally.

With the assistance of many icluding Dr. Jooke Robbins of the Center for Coastal Studies, Mason Weinrich, Lindsey Jones of the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog, Danielle Brown and Celia Ackerman of Gotham Whale humpback catalog Flukebook, Happwhale , the Thorne Lab at Stonybrook University, and others we have photo-identified 671 different humpback whales during our trips

Meet the CRESLI naturalists/educators

Expectations:

Cetaceans: Humpback, Fin, Minke, Right; Sei, and Pilot whales; Common, Bottlenose, Atlantic White Sided, and Risso’s Dolphins; Leatherback, Green and Loggerhead Turtles; Basking, Great White, Hammerhead, and Blue Sharks; Ocean Sunfish; Portuguese Man-of-War; and other marine life.

Birds: Cory’s, Scopolli's, Great Sooty, Manx, and Audubon’s Shearwaters; Wilson’s and Leach’s Storm-Petrels; Northern Gannet; Red-necked and Red Phalaropes; Pomarine, and Parasitic Jaegers; Greater Black-backed, Herring, Laughing, and Bonaparte’s Gulls.

Dont forget that we also offer Local 5-6 hour whale watch trips from The Viking Dock on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from June, 30, 2024