Mandurah's Dolphin Blog: Spotted… A brand new baby dolphin!

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.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Spotted… A brand new baby dolphin!

Spotted… A brand new baby dolphin!

What a week it has been in Mandurah! We only cruised with our lovely local dolphin population on a couple of days this week due to the stormy weather that passed through the town. We are happy to be back operating and enjoying cruising with locals and tourists now that the weather is returning to ‘normal’ beautiful winter. However, all the rain does not deter the fun loving dolphins from splashing about! And the crew have spotted what we believe to be a brand new baby in the water! When you cruise with us please keep a special eye out for this new addition to the dolphin population here in the estuary!

Here are our reported dolphin sightings for the week that was! We are all looking forward to the beautiful weather that is forecast for the upcoming few days!

Reported Dolphin Sightings

Friday 15^th June

Pod of dolphins in Mandjar Bay with what looked like a new baby!

Thursday 14^th June

3 fishing in Mandjar Bay

4 fishing, playing and mating

Wednesday 13^th June

2 dolphins coming to estuary from the ocean to fish in Mandjar Bay

Monday 11^th and Tuesday 12^th June no dolphin reports due to stormy weather

Sunday 10^th June

5 Dolphins playing about the marina

4 dolphins in the estuary south of the old bridge

Hope to see you soon!
Love the Mandurah Cruises Team :)

2 comments:

AnonymousJune 17, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Thanks for the lovely cruise yesterday guys! Our family was over from NSW and loved the experience! See you next time. Gabby.
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AnonymousJune 17, 2012 at 10:46 AM
So good to see the weather fining up... a little.
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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.