Whitby Whale Watching

30/05/2024

Whale watching trips in September available to book this year at www.whitbycoastalcruises.com
Adults 20.00
Child 15 00
Unders 5s free
Pets allowed
all trips are 2.5 hours

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Our 20 minute trips along the coast towards Sandsend run every day, starting at 10.15am. Tickets cost £5 per person - under 5s go free! Board at Brewery Steps on the harbourside  No Booking needed for 20 min sailings just walk aboard 

28/08/2022

We Running The Wildlife Whale Watching Trips
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Our 20 minute trips along the coast towards Sandsend run every day, starting at 10.15am. Tickets cost £5 per person - under 5s go free! Board at Brewery Steps on the harbourside  No Booking needed for 20 min sailings just walk aboard 

18/07/2021

18/07/2021

Our 20 minute trips along the coast towards Sandsend run every day, starting at 10.15am. Tickets cost £4 per person - under 5s go free! Board at Brewery Steps on the harbourside  No Booking needed for 20 min sailings just walk aboard 

18/03/2021

Bookings Can Be Made Now Trips Start 29th March

23/02/2021

Whitby Whale Watching will not be running dedicated whale watching trips in 2021 The Yellow Boats will be running sea trips as normal .

02/03/2020

Booking can now be made on our website for September 2020 whale watching 😀

15/12/2019

This morning we wake to the sad news that we have lost our wonderful crewman and friend Kelvin quite suddenly after a short stay in hospital. Most of our 2019 whales watchers know him as Kelvin in the bar or 'Kelvin on a Saga Cruise'. He couldn't do enough for our passengers and the rest of his crew and his love for the wildlife grew massively as the season developed. Always smiling and enthusiastic for a day on the North Sea. We at the Yellow Boats family will miss him greatly.

26/09/2019

Yesterday 25th of September and don't you just love it when a plan comes together?! Straight out to the area we left on Monday and just a mile short there they were. Minkes as far as the eye can see. 'Popping off like party balloons' pick a number between 20 and 30. Then here come the seals in a snorting splashing pack they really have been a great sideshow this year. One minke took a real shine to Summer Queen and swam up close 3 times each time coming down the side and rolling over to show it's belly. Upon leaving this spot to head toward Skinningrove we ran into another 5-6 whales. The plan was to run along the coast looking for dolphins and dolphins is exactly what we found. 4 bottlenose just South of Staithes we traveled with them towards Whitby until we ran out of time.

23/09/2019

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) my laptop battery has gone flat so the amount of photos in this post are limited and probably not a true reflection of an incredible day! I took hundreds of photos! A glassy sea led to the odd early whale sighting and then a dot to dot trail of seals led to a small feeding frenzy of birds and more seals, minkes of course were with them and built in numbers steadily. We guess we ended up surrounded (and I really do mean surrounded) by 15-20 minke whales. 7 whales at the surface together? No problem! Juvenile whales criss crossing the bow, crossing under the boat as well as lunging around the frenzy. Oh yes and add in some warm autumn sunshine. And if all this wasn't enough after sightseeing the pretty villages of Staithes and Runswick Bay we found 4 bottlenose dolphins playing just off Whitby Beach, doing what you'd expect of dolphins really, breaching and tail slapping before heading north. This trip really pushed the bar, the wildlife was amazing, and the whale watchers weren't bad too 😉

23/09/2019

After an amazing day bottlenose dolphins showing off to whale watching passengers, only 10 minutes from the harbour.