Whale watching along the coastline of Queensland has become a popular attraction for visitors and locals in the Sunshine Coast, with a number of whale watching tours available in Mooloolaba.
The whale watching season generally runs from mid-June to early November, when the enormous humpback whales pass close to the coastline, during their annual migration south in the Indian Ocean, along the Eastern Coast of Australia.
Humpback whales are one the fifth largest of the great whales and adult humpback whales can measure up to 19 metres / 62 feet, weighing around 40 tonnes. This vulnerable and protected species of whale begins migrating each winter, leaving the Antarctica area at the end of April, to travel to the warmer waters of Queensland in early spring. The first humpback whales to arrive in the waters at the Sunshine Coast are usually the newly pregnant female whales, followed by mature males and then mothers with their newly-born humpback whale calves.
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