Manly Ocean Adventures

My wife booked the family on a whale watching trip to get the school holidays underway. I've experienced a couple of such things in my time; California and Port Macquarie - my hopes were not overly high... but boy was I wrong to be doubtful! The coolest boat in Sydney harbour amiably captained by Blake shot us out between the heads and off to track down migrating hump-back whales. The boat ride itself was great fun, but to almost instantly track down two of the ocean's graceful inhabitants was fantastic. Cameras fizzed into life as these two giants put on a winter show for us all; breaching, tail slapping and all just a few metres from our boat. An hour whizzed by as we were able to drift alongside these incredible animals before we had to jet off for home - but wait, there was more. Our knowledgeable Captain headed straight to shore and our watery experience was further enhanced by an encounter with a playful pod of dolphins, who simply wanted to place chase with our boat. If you're going to go Whale Watching this season, be sure to put Manly Ocean Adventures at the top of your list - you won't regret it!

What a great experience. Blake was fun, knowledgeable and gracious. With Blakes expertise, we managed to locate an observe a beautiful Humpback wall that breached, (broke the surface of the water), 3 times. I'm attaching a shot or two. A simple email request to Blake yielded much better pics than the ones I'm attaching. Huge fun!

It was a fantastic experience, we're able to see whales from very close and Blake the captain explained us a lot about the whales, which was very interesting! I have been few years ago with another boat but wasn't happy, we only saw the whales from very far away. Here it's not the case, with the speed boat they can drive very close to the whales and in addition it's great fun! Awesome work, thank you Blake!Highly recommend this boat and the captain too! :)

Had an excellent time, highly recommended!!Everyone had a great view of the whales, Blake was really informative. As we were heading back in we spotted a whale breaching so were able to speed back out to see it perform more of the same- awesome to watch! Great fun speeding around on the boat as well, loved it!Have been out on a bigger boat another time but this was so much better, will come back again when next in Sydney.Thanks El Capitan!

Had a fantastic trip whale watching last week. Blake the captain was very knowledgeable about the whales and it didn't take very long to see the whales at all! I wasn't even sure if I would see whales at all on the trip and then we saw about 4 or 5. The boat was comfortable and fun and really allowed you to feel very close to the whales while feeling safe at the same time. Highly recommended for those interested in taking a whale watching trip!

Loved every minute of it!!!! The boat ride was great fun and really fast (better than a bigger slower boat) and Blake gave us loads of facts about the whales which was really interesting. He also sent all the pics he took that day capturing angles we couldn't, and had warm jackets for everyone too so no need to worry on that front. Highly recommend - thanks Blake and we'll definitely do it again!

Our whale watching adventure with Blake was far and away the highlight of our trip to Sydney. Speeding out through The Heads was incredibly exhilarating, Way better than an amusement park" according to my 12 year old son. It was thrilling and very moving to see the whales up very close

We had a great day out with Blake from Manly Ocean Adventures, the whole family enjoyed the experience and we saw plenty of whales! The boat ride itself is worth the trip. Highly recommended.

We had an exhilarating ride out and back skimming the waves, an experience in itself, helpfully provided with extra coats to keep out the wind. Blake was a knowledgeable skipper, taking us straight out to a couple of humpbacks whom we were able to watch for a good half hour or so with interesting facts being passed on and Blake was prepared to stay out with the whales for a bit over schedule while the whales hung around. We had a fantastic trip, great value, thoroughly recommended.