Author Archive | Curt Jenner

Ever present on deck with us, Skipper is as keen as mustard to find whales and dolphins.  He often spots them first and rightly takes his place on the data sheet, under the category “Sighted By”! Go Skipper, keep it!  

Finishing a busy day observing whales with sunset at sea, is my favourite aspect of life on the ocean.  The colours are intense, the clouds enhance or sometimes ruin the daily event but either way, it’s a waiting game.  Watching and waiting as the sun, an orange ball appears to drop towards the horizon.  And […]

With great panache, this adult female humpback whale leapt out of the water!  Like a mother bear she was protecting her newborn calf from a pesky and annoying shark.  With an almighty whoosh, she breached several times, letting that shark know that she was not having a bar of that activity! This humpback whale won-just […]

This adult humpback whale repeatedly exhaled just beneath the water surface blowing bubbles in the Indian Ocean bath! Beautiful, white frothy patterns occurred with each surfacing. Perhaps the bubbles felt nice on the skin behind the blowholes.  

In 1990, Curt and Mich began humpback whale research based on Enderby Island in the Dampier Archipelago, northwest Australia. What was the northern destination for this population? How many whales travel this west coast?  How long do they stay on the breeding grounds?  A multitude of questions drove their research. In Nickol Bay, on the […]

Cetacean research by Curt and Micheline Jenner and the CWR Team has entered our 27th year! Using four different vessels, our 5.8 m Novurania inflatable (Nova), a 13.5 m sailing catamaran (WhaleSong), a 24 m expedition vessel (WhaleSong II) and our small ice-classed ship (Whale Song) a wide variety of cetacean species have been encountered, […]