Whale watching tips.

cubegame

Grumpelstiltskin wrote: »

This is only a 4 hour flight away.

https://rove.me/to/madeira/whale-and-dolphin-watching

I'll extoll the virtues of Madeira to all and sundry but their whale watching operations are not so good.

EssexExile

https://www.whitbywhalewatching.net/

michele-p

You'd have to look up the right time of year, but we had a fab holiday in Maine in the US. It was the end of a very long road trip, but we loved Boothbay Harbour https://boothbayboattrips.com/ - we stayed 1 night in the motel owned by these people. We didn't have time for the whale watching, but the trips were very popular.

We also loved Bar Harbour further up the coast, and every lovely place between. Bar Harbour was a have been a bit bigger and quite touristy, but is also great to explore the Arcadia national Park, if you like outdoors there are miles and miles of lanes to cycle on, horse rides etc. It's a beautiful peninsula.

So, you could do an East Coast tour, and have plenty of chances to see whales - from cape Cod right up to Boothbay maybe? You could fly in/out of Boston.

brianposter

Whale watching from Tarifa, Spain seems to be relatively reliable - the weather being more problematic than the whales.
Tarifa itself is an agreeable place to stay for a few days.

p00hsticks

EssexExile wrote: »

https://www.whitbywhalewatching.net/

I wouldn;t really recommend this if you can afford elsewhere - you are very unlikely to see anything other than 'stinky minke' (and possibly not even those) which only tend to appear as a brief fin breaking the water .....

jackieblack

My best whale watching experiences have been in Monterey Bay and around the San Juan Islands/ Vancouver Island

mr_lordi

Thank you all for your wonderful answers.

kuepper

I'd leave the whales alone instead of harassing them as many of these trips do. Go to Hermanus in S Africa where you can watch from the shore.

onwards&upwards

kuepper wrote: »

I'd leave the whales alone instead of harassing them as many of these trips do. Go to Hermanus in S Africa where you can watch from the shore.

There are ethical trips that don’t disturb the animals, Elding in Iceland is a good one.

I agree though don’t go for any that chase them, or that offer you chance to get in the water yourself.

Kim_kim

One month of the year you can see whales from the Dom Rep.