Alaska’s Humpback Whale Bubble-Net Feeding 3-Day Photo Tour with Neil McDermott

Early each spring, hundreds of Humpback Whales migrate across the Pacific to Alaska. The whales have eaten little for months, and by the time they return to Alaska, they are hungry. Fortunately for them, schools of spawning herring are abundant, the perfect food supply. But Humpbacks have a strategy to make catching them even easier, a cooperative feeding technique called “Bubble-net feeding”. You will have the opportunity to capture stunning images as a group of up to 20 whales explode out of the water, mouths agape engulfing thousands of herring at a time. We often witnessed this performance as many as 90 times during a single day’s outing. Bald eagles, sealions, seals and a wide variety of seabirds are plentiful feeding on the season’s bounty of herring as well.
This trip, based in the southeast Alaska community of Sitka, is timed to hit the window when the hungry whales are bubble-net feeding like crazy. This is the place, and this is the time documentaries such as Secrets of the Whales and Blue Planet chose to capture bubble-net content.
Join this photo tour and enjoy three 8-hour days of private boat tours. NANPA members get $200 off / promo code NANPA2023