Whalewatch Explorer - 27th August 2013

A wild start to the trip but we were soon rewarded with sunshine and great sightings. We had some superb basking shark encounters with one large shark often lifting its huge nose out of the water as it carried on feeding around us. After a lunch spent at the Cairns with the seals and watching an Arctic skua harass a group of kittiwakes we headed for home only to be joined by a minke whale which surfaced just metres off our port side! It only surfaced once but the dorsal fin sure did look like Knobble's!! Also 2 golden eagles getting mobbed by ravens and lots of surfing porpoise