2024 Great South Channel Trip with CRESLI!
Join us on this 36 hour adventure, 10 hours to get to the whales, 14 to 16 hours with them, and 10 hours back.
This is an area at the southern end of the Gulf of Maine (east of Nantucket) where we have encountered hundreds of humpback whales in the past (2002-2019).
On the Viking Starship (140 foot LOA), leaving from the Viking Landing in Montauk Harbor.
Departs: Sunday, August 11 at 8PM
Returns: Tuesday, August 13 at 3AM
Fare: $400 – Reservations Required
Parking is $15 for the duration of your trip. A parking pass will be issued at check in.
Sleeping accommodations: Open bunks in the lower cabin (below deck) space for 40 passengers; sleeping bags are suggested.
Excellent food can be purchased from the galley (cash only), or bring your own food.
We are still at 100% success at finding whales on our offshore trips.
For photos and videos from our last 10 years of offshore whale watch trips, go to:
https://drartiek-cresli.smugmug.com/Great-South-Channel-trips
Expectations:
Humpback, Fin, Minke, Right; Sei, and Pilot whales; Common, Bottlenose, Atlantic White Sided, and Risso’s Dolphins; Leatherback, Green and Loggerhead Turtles; Basking, Great White, Hammerhead, and Blue Sharks; Ocean Sunfish; Portuguese Man-of-War; and other marine life.
Birds:
Cory’s, Greater, Sooty, Manx, and Audubon’s Shearwaters; Wilson’s and Leach’s Storm-Petrels; Northern Gannet; Red-necked and Red Phalaropes; Pomarine, and Parasitic Jaegers; Greater Black-backed, Herring, Laughing, and Bonaparte’s Gulls.
