Whale watching from Halifax area

[rotjeknor]

We’ll be in Halifax summer 23 arriving on the Zuiderdam. Can anybody recommend a whale watching tour from Halifax or surrounding area ?
Thanks !

[Mr and Mrs C]

Were you able to find anything? I’m not having much luck. 

[rotjeknor]

On 1/29/2023 at 4:42 AM, Mr and Mrs C said:

Were you able to find anything? I’m not having much luck. 

Nope .... still searching 😊

[martincath]

Halifax is not a good spot for whalewatching - there's some great spots on the inside in the Bay of Fundy, with boats from NS based out of the peninsula west of Digby; or if you're doing the Cabot Trail some operations also run out of Cheticamp on the inner (Western) side of Cape Breton. Are there whales swimming around in Atlantic waters near Halifax? Of course - but commercial whalewatching is only viable when feeding grounds reliably entice the whales to locations that are consistently reachable by small boats in an hour or less.

 

Boat tours from Peggy's Cove, an easy drive from Halifax, *might* see whales, but don't offer guarantees - waters on the inside of Nova Scotia, especially on the Bay of Fundy, are vastly superior for whale spotting as they are productive in terms of munchies for the whales. St-Andrews-on-the-Sea (about an hour's drive from Saint John NB) has a plethora of whale tours as Passamaquoddy Bay is a confined area that is tremendously easy to find them in, so if your cruise stops in Saint John I'd be looking to rent a car and head there (whale tours sold through the cruiselines pad pricing by obscene amounts to include a coach to St Andrews - even one person can probably save money booking a rental car and an independent whale tour, and if you split the car with a few fellow cruisers you'll save literally hundreds of dollars).

 

In Halifax I'd be looking at cultural/historic stuff - the Citadel, museums, Titanic stuff - and local foodstuffs like Donairs and lobster rolls (every Haligonian I've ever met anywhere else always bemoans the lack of good versions of both anywhere else!!!)

[rotjeknor]

Great info ! Thanks a lot 👍👍