Wildlife View Blog

As i said we drove by trinity again because we enjoyed the boat trip so much but wanted to wait a little. Actually we met one employee of them (Clarenville or Port Blanford), who told us that they we already being more playful and they saw one breaching as well close to the boat.

So we booked with them for the 23rd and saw a lot of humpbacks – not breaching, but basiclly doing everything else and even coming very close to the boat.

First we saw a shark again, but Skipper Bob told us again that they usually dont see them. This time the skipper was relatively sure though that it was a young “Big white”:

23.07.2025 Google Pixel 6a, Full HD Video, no zoom

Location: Just east outside of Trinity harbour

We drove a little further and then saw a lot of humpbacks. There were younger, more playful one, that we stayed a little longer with.

The first thing one humpback did, was seemingly intentionally getting the whole boat wet by hard splashing its tail close to the boat.

23.07.2025, Google Pixel 6a, Full HD video, no zoom

Location: Far east of Trinity, near the edge, where the peninsula continues to the north.

After being splashed on, one came up extremely close and spit through his whole at us up close – just before taking a massive shit, that I unfortunately dont have a video from.

I dont even now if there is a name for this sort of behaviour.

I got it all on video but unfortunately cant upload because im still too cheap for premium.

Next we did see a lot of dorsal flipper splashing.

We also saw one guy doing a turnaround after he approached the boat

Of course we got some tail:

Some other highlights of this boattrip:

Here are some more tips for whale watching from boat:

1. Definetly go with a zodiak like boat: Fast, less people, good views, whales can approach very close (like above).
2. If you are in the same area as we were (bonavista peninsula), take a boattrip at the right timeline. You can find out about that by googeling or even by some recent sighting that the boat companies post online.

And again many thanks to our Skipper Bob, who even let us stay with the whales 30min past our time, although in hignsight he couldnt start the engine since the whales were too close.

Check out Trinity boat tours at https://trinityecotours.com/