Author Archive | Curt Jenner

Surfacing beneath our drifting vessel, we often get very special views of humpback whales.  The 400mm lens brings the whales closer too. These are special moments with whales just before breaking the water surface.          

During our brief stay, a few snorkels were had in the warm, clear water around Smith Point.  Sheer bliss!              

A tiny dot in the Indian Ocean, Christmas Island is a haven for a wide variety of land animals and rich plant life and boasts a diverse marine ecosystem in warm clear water.            

In September 2015, Whale Song travelled to Christmas Island assisting with a joint US/Australian Navy Exercise designed to understand the properties of radar in the tropical environment. Several weeks at Christmas Island gave us a brief, all be it lasting, experience of this beautiful ancient seamount.  With a richly diverse natural habitat and an eventful […]

Life at sea is wonderful, I especially love sunset at sea.  Since I do a night-watch from 12 midnight to 3am, I am usually sleeping at sunrise.  Instead, I relish the colour change at the other end of the day.  The boat moves along a dedicated trackline, we look and listen for whales, we eat […]

The myth about the quiet ocean, well replace it with it’s a noisy sea.  Animals mark their territory and go about their daily lives in a well-orchestrated soundscape across the global shallow and deep seas.  Shipping and man-oriented activities also fill the oceans with a myriad of sounds. Listening to the ocean with a towed […]

The oceans cover 71% of our planet Earth.  Across these watery expanses, around 300 species of seabirds (comprising around 3% of the approximately 9,700 bird species recognised), spend their lives.  Seabirds only generally come to land to breed, the rest of the year they derive their living from the sea environment. Seabird populations face many […]

As a cetacean biologists, we live for the calm days where sighting conditions are ideal for visual surveys.  Sometimes it is so calm, you can imagine tiny animals riding tiny glassy wavelets. Clearly I have been at sea too long!       Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins ride our bow-wash in the lagoon at Cocos Keeling […]

Wherever we travel, the beauty of the ocean never ceases to amaze.  I love the rawness of the sea, its unpretentiousness.          

Always delighting, the CWR Team loves every moment when all manner of dolphin species grace our bow-wash with gorgeous aerial leaps and their “all-lined up” swimming styles!