Whale Watch in Bermuda with The Bermuda Zoological Society

Whale watching you can do many places in the world. You can get in small boats, big boats and really see those whales. Experiencing whale watching in Bermuda is a little bit different. It feels a bit more personal. These whales have swum a bit to be here. They're here to take a break and hang out a bit it seems. And I think here with the clear waters that we get, there's a good opportunity to see things that are just, they'll blow your mind. These whales are magnificent creatures and here in Bermuda we definitely have a bit of clear water and blue skies and some friendly whales. We usually take people looking for whales about 12 miles offshore. So these humpback whales are actually coming from the Caribbean and they're northbound to like say Canada, so particularly Newfoundland, Greenland as well. And so basically as they're leaving the Caribbean and travelling north, they hit Bermuda's platform on the south shore. So yeah, these are all free-roaming animals doing their natural migration past Bermuda and we're just observing them in their habitat. So April is the peak of the whale migration in Bermuda. We estimate probably about maybe 700 to 1,500 whales pass by us every year. And once we find them, we approach them very slowly from a distance and the idea is to get the whales comfortable with our vessel such that they like to hang around our boat for a few hours. We don't want to do anything that can make the whales feel uncomfortable. It's all about respecting the whales and their space. Some whales are very like trusting. You know, they may come right up to the boat. They may wave their pectoral fin at you and tail splat, reach right in about 50 feet off the boat. Some get so curious it looks like they're almost reading the text on the side of our boat. And there are others that are very wary. You know, they may keep their distance. And again, I mean, seeing migratory whales in the middle of the Atlantic, I mean, there's literally no other place in the world you can do this. Just come and enjoy the experience because it is once-in-a-lifetime for sure.