Echo is the name of our new baby Dolphin

Echo was voted the most popular name in our recent Baby Dolphin Naming Contest on our Facebook page. The name was submitted by Faythe Lululemon  and Faythe wins a Family Pass on our fantastic Christmas Canal Lights Cruise. Also our lucky random draw winner for another Family Pass on our Christmas Canal Lights Cruise just for voting in the naming contest was Hun Hao Chuah. Everyone else who voted in the contest also wons a 2 for 1 One hour Dolphin and Canal Cruise, just book a cruise and bring a friend for FREE.


There were three dolphins born within a month of each other, the first was named Sonic by the staff because of it's speedy nature. The second baby we named Kat after one of our fantastic staff members who recently left us and now the last is named Echo.


If you want to see, Sonic, Kat and Echo the baby dolphins please come down to Mandurah and we'll take you out and show them to you.

Ph: +61 89581 1242

Email: info@bouvardcruises.com.au

Web: http://www.bouvardcruises.com.au/

Catch us if you can!

15th April 2011 - 12pm

There was a massive dolphin frenzy out in the Peel Inlet the other day! We were on our 12pm Luncheon Cruise, travelling near Boundary Island we spotted pod after pod of dolphins...

It was unbelievable most i've seen in a while, we had 12 dolphins riding alongside our vessel the SuperCat Port & Starbord side catchin some awesome waves.

Very Cool Experience to See!!

- Shay (Deckie) :)

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A tale from SuperCat....

As we came into the estuary, we were on our 1pm cruise. Whilst some were enjoying lunch on board to our surprise we spotted five dolphins up ahead....

Catching up to them, they swam beside us! With the waves crashing the dolphins were splashin!! Capt Zac thought to to take it up a notch and give them a ride of their life.

Everyone had their cameras/video cameras out to capture the dolphins jumping high in the air.

As it was time to turn back, our journey was nearly at its end, but the dolphins wern't ready to give in just yet! Following SuperCat still playing games all the way to the canal homes. Turning past Perfume Point was when they dolphins fun was over.

It was an incredible afternoon, hopefully everyone got some good kodak moments!

Shay :) (Deckie)

Latest Dolphin Sightings from Dancing Dolphin

A total of 58 dolphin sightings for Dancing Dolphin for the week, combine that with the 31 sightings from Super Cat and that's an amazing total of 89 dolphin sightings in one week.

Monday 28/3

• 12.25 - 2 Mother & Calf in front of Mary Street Lagoon
• 1.05 - 5 riding the bow waves heading towards the estuary bridge
• 2.20 - 4 swimming in the marina with one calf

Tuesday 29/3

• 12.30 - 3 in Mandjar bay diving for fish
• 12.45 - 3 in the canal homes
• 1.00 - 1 at waterside near wetlands chasing fish, plus put on a good show!
• 2.50 - 1 along the wall in the canal homes

Wednesday 30/3

• 12.15 - 1 trying to catch fish on a wall going into the marina
• 12.40 - 6 Pod of 6 males going towards the Peel Inlet, followed us towards the old bridge
• 1.00 - 4 males followed us for a bit then got bored and turned around the other way
• 2.15 - 1 just swimming around near yellow marker in the mariner entrance

Thursday 31/3

• 10.05 - 5 dolphins exploring Mandjar bay
• 10.25 - 6 including on calf chasing fishes along the marina rock wall

Friday 01/4

• 12.30 - 4 Dolphins near Rolley Tasker’s home heading out to Mandjar Bay

Monday 4/4

• 12.45 - 12 Dolphins very playful, some feeding close to the Creery Wetlands area, 3 baby dolphins amongst the big group
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If you would like to see Mandurah's playful dolphins please contact Bouvard Cruises:

Ph: +61 89581 1242

Email: info@bouvardcruises.com.au

Web: http://www.bouvardcruises.com.au/

Latest Dolphin Sightings from Super Cat

28/3 11.45: 3 dolphins & 1 calf swimming alongside us near the canal entrance

28/3 1.30: 2 cows & 2 calves, mum’s feeding in shallows while babies are playing trying to bite each other

28/3 1.45: 5 adults & 3 calves surfing our waves!! Oh yeah! Jumping doing belly flops. From Fairbridge bank to the mouth of the ocean

28/3 2.00: 1 male dolphin feeding in Samphire Cove

29/3 11.40: 1 male dolphin swimming in our wake from estuary bridge to traffic bridge

29/3 2.00: 1 female jumping and playing in wake

29/3 2.15: 1 dolphin feeding on muscles along the rocks near

29/3 3.40: 3 adults & 1 calf swimming in wake for 10 minutes from Estuary Bridge

30/3 1.10: 6 Pod in Mandjar Bay, very placid leaping in our wake

30/3 3.20: 4 Mother and Calf heading out to sea, then another quick glimpse of a pair in the Mandurah Canals

1/4 11.10: A mother and a calf we let them go for a ride in our wake out to the ocean

1/4 1.15: 2 mothers and 2 calves in the Marina

Latest Dolphin Sightings

Super Cat

22/3/ 11.15am: 2 - Swimming beside the boat in canals and the new baby dolphin we spotted yesterday

22/3/ 1.30pm: 4 - Saw a pod of dolphins jumping & splashing

23/3/ 9.25am: 1 - Jumping randomly in the air around entrance marina

23/3/ 2.20pm 4 - Fishing and playing around bank at entrance to canals

24/3/ 10.20am 1 - Swimming beside boat and jumping through wake all the way from Port Mandurah canal entrance to end of estuary to ocean

24/3/ 12.50pm 6 - Pod swimming and jumping next to boat in wake. All the way from estuary bridge to the old traffic bridge

25/3/ 11.30am 1 - Saw a dolphin, very shy near Rolleys house

25/3/ 1.12pm 7 - 1 Dolphin swimming in marina. 3 dolphins swam with us from The eastern side of the foreshore to the entrance of the ocean riding our waves alongside Dolphin Discovery and was amazing. Saw 4 dolphins near the waterside canals, they were following us the whole way to the old bridge. Jumping and surfing. The Dolphins we took to the ocean are back followed us through Estuary.

Dancing Dolphin

22/3 10.15am: 4 dolphins heading towards the marina

23/3 12.15pm: 6 dolphins, 2 mum’s & 2 calves swimming around entrance to the mariner one was the new baby with stripes, followed us out to the mouth of the ocean as we turn around and 2 more dolphins caught up with us and we gave them a ride.

23/3 12.45pm: 5 dolphins in the canals towards waterside

23/3 11.30am: 2 mother & calf very playful in the estuary. Rode portside of the waves for 15 mins, Very playful bubby

23/3 2.25pm: 2 dolphins feeding in the canals swimming behind DD, not interested in playing

23/3 2.30pm: Same dolphins being cheeky and ended up playing with us all the way to mandjar bay

25/3 12.45pm: 4 dolphins 1 calf 3 adults feeding around the shallows next to New Bridge

25/3 1pm: 3 mother & calf swimming in wake behind us while one dolphin by himself at the bow

25/3 1.20pm: 5-6 following boat back through canals

26/3 11.15am: 2 baby and mum fishing

26/3 1.20pm: 2 in canals fishing

WOW that 62 Dolphin sightings in 4 days!!!!

April Fools Day Visits

As we have mentioned before, the Mandurah dolphins are already a cheeky bunch of animals, so on a day like April Fool's Day you can never be sure what sort of tomfoolery they will be up to! And they did not dissapoint. One of the smallest calves that we have seen this year was leaping and twirling and playing in our waves near the Anzac Memorial Park. The passengers were absolutely ecstatic that they got to see mother and calf playing so close to the boat; it truly is a magical experience. We managed to capture some footage of their gallivanting which will be posted on this website soon so keep your eyes pealed. No joke. :)

Wednesday, 30th March 2011 - Lots of leaping

The sun was shining, the water was glistening and the dolphins were leaping - Wednesday was the perfect day to cruise the Mandurah Estuary!

Just as the Super Cat was cruising through Mandjar Bay our sister ship, the Dancing Dolphin, radioed through that a pod of six dolphins had been playing with their boat, and they were heading straight towards us! True to form, within a few minutes the dolphins had well and truly arrived!

The fins of six large adult dolphins sliced through the water and straight to the port-side of our boat. At first they were an extremely placid pod and floated on the surface very close to the boat - much to the delight of our camera-snapping passengers! They floated around for over ten minutes; some on the surface, some just below it and one crazy bottlenose decided to spend the entire time upside down, proudly showing his gorgeous white belly.

The dolphins looked so relaxed that it almost sent the passengers to sleep as well - so our skipper Jonno decided he needed to liven the mood a bit. The Mandurah dolphins are renowned as being a playful bunch and there is nothing that they love more than surfing the waves our boat creates - and they are pretty talented acrobats (or would they be aquabats?). The throttle went down and within seconds the fun had begun...

If you cannot already tell from the expression on this dolphins face - he was having a whale of a time!!! He was only two meters from the boat and was trying his hardest to splash every single person on board... and he was a good aim! He surfed and leapt around with us for another ten minutes before they decided it was time to go.

The passengers and crew watched on until their dorsal fins faded onto the horizon.

Hopefully they will come play again tomorrow!