Mandurah's Dolphin Blog: Super Cat Dolphin Sightings 9-15 April

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.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Super Cat Dolphin Sightings 9-15 April

Saturday 9th April

11am - 3 playing near Fairbridge Bank
12pm - 4 swimming beside SuperCat from the Canal Entrance
1pm - 4 swimming and playing in our wake for 10mins, Nikki & her calf doing barrels rolls, flips and really big jumps (Show Offs)

Tuesday 12th April

12pm - 8 Lots of dolphins today! Especially in the Mandjar Bay area
2pm - 5 followed us throughout the Estuary for about 1 mile then followed us back to Mandjar Bay

Wednesday 13th April

1.45pm - 3 once again followed us throughout the estuary

Thursday 14th April

1pm - 6 Pod of dolphins near the fig tree playing

Friday 15th April

11.40am - 12 dolphins followed us from Boundary Island (Nikki & Calf amongst the group)

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About Mandurah's Dolphins

Mandurah has a healthy population of Bottle Nose Dolphins (tusiops truncatus) that is estimated to number up to 75 individuals, depending on the time of year. The number increases around mating times when males come in and join the pods. The pods of dolphins average around 10-15 and have sometimes been seen to be as large as 25 down to solitary dolphins or smaller family groups of 3-4.

Their average length is about 3 metres, with calves being about 1 metre long at birth. We normally see baby dolphins appear between December and April. Mandurah's wild dolphins are medium grey in colour with light flanks and pale bellies. They can live up to 30 years and can swim in short bursts up to 40km/h and they love to play in our ferries bow waves and wash. As a matter of fact dolphins are the only other mammals apart from humans that continue to play well into their adult life. And Mandurah's wild dolphins are very playful!

Thanks to Sally Kirby for some of this information.