Mandurah's Dolphin Blog

Bouvard Cruises is happy to introduce you to the official "Mandurah's Dolphin Blog" where we will share with you all of the sightings and encounters we have on our cruises with Mandurah's beautiful wild dolphins. You will find photo's, movies and information on the many dolphin encounters we have on our cruises in and around Mandurah and hope that this information helps raise awareness of Mandurah's wild dolphins. You too can see Mandurah's dolphins, they live just 1 hour south of Perth in Western Australia.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Dolphin Sightings onboard the "SuperCat"

Saturday 13th February

Kat sighted 2 dolphins in the Mandurah Estuary, they came over to the boat for a brief look however continued heading downstream.

Sunday 14th February
Captain Simon onboard the "SuperCat" sighted 2 dolphins while heading into the marina, we had some international guests onboard from Singapore who were lucky enough to see dolphins in the wild for the first time.

Monday 15th February
Onboard the "SuperCat" in the Mandurah Estuary an expected dolphin appeared jumping in the wash behind the boat. Thrilled passengers onboard got slightly wet from the splashing of the dolphin.

Thursday 18th February
Captain Ron at 11:15am had a pod of three dolphins chasing the boat and playing in the wash near the entrance to the Port Mandurah Canals. Ron & Kat noticed a white spot on the back of one of the dolphins that they had never noticed before. White spots are caused from scaring, this may have happened recently to one of the local dolphins or is perhaps a new dolphin to the area.
Later in the day at 1345 another pod of 4 dolphins were fishing along the rock wall in the marina a very common spot to see dolphins.

Friday 19th February
Captain Ron found four dolphins at the entrance to the marina chasing fish along the rock wall. Dolphins use there tails to slap the water stunning the fish or even killing them. They then float to the surface and the dolphins enjoy a feed of fresh fish most likely mullet of whiting.

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