Whale Watching Season

 The category of Southern Right Whales is one of the largest mammals on earth being only marginally smaller than the Blue and Humpback whales. Like humans, they are warm blooded, give birth to live, fully developed young, breathe air, and feed their young on their milk. The calf is approximately 5 to 6 metres at birth and can double in weight over the first week An adult whale averages 15 - 18 metres in length and 50 - 90 tonnes in weight

The Southern Right Whales normally swim between 3 to 9 kilometres per hour. They feed in the fertile waters of the Antarctic during summer months and leave in late March and make their way north to give birth and to succour their young and then in September ( or October) return to the Antarctic.