Bora Bora’s Whale Watching Season: Witness Majestic Marine Giants
Each year, humpback whales travel up to 6,000 kilometres from Antarctic feeding grounds to the warm lagoons of French Polynesia. They come to give birth and nurse calves in waters that rarely dip below 26°C. For travelers visiting Bora Bora between July and November, that migration creates one of the South Pacific’s most extraordinary wildlife encounters. Humpback whales migrate 6,000 kilometres from Antarctica to French Polynesia, where they give birth and nurse calves in protected lagoons. But whale watching here isn’t like the trips you might know from New England or Iceland. Bora Bora’s approach is small, regulated, and