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Buying the Unicorn Ranch! Whale Hello There! Wow, we don’t even know where to begin when telling you about this…

Everyone Digs a Big Hunka Burning Humpback Love It's All About the Escort   Hello Vicarious Cetacean Adventurers! It’s that…

Conscious Breath Adventures is Back With the Humpback Whales on the Silver Bank Our First Cruise Report of the 2023…

Why is whale watching so popular and why would anyone want to swim with whales? Every year more than fifteen…

"What is the Best Week to Swim with Whales on the Silver Bank?" This is the question I am asked…

Another Special Day Swimming with Humpback Whales on the Silver Bank Over the years our guests have had some incredible…

Positive Energy Here at the end of the long, strange summer of 2020, we can all use a breath of…

Hi Everyone, A Lot Has Happened Since Our Last Cruise Report There is a lot to share. But I will…

  Hello There, Welcome to Cat’s summary of another great week on the Silver Bank! After six more days at…

First Impressions from Our New Intern We've added a new member to the team, an engaging young lady named Cat…

Our Halfway Point This week wrapped up the first half of our 2020 Silver Bank humpback whale season and this…

It's Hard to Explain One of the hardest parts of the Silver Bank experience to explain to people is that…

Welcome to the third chapter of our 2020 Silver Bank humpback whale season Our Cruise Report for February 8-15, 2020…

Welcome back to the Silver Bank with this Cruise Report from our second week of the 2020 This being week…

Welcome to 2020 on the Silver Bank! And WOW!! What an incredible start to the season. It’s a new decade,…

A Chapter Written Happy New Year! The end of one year brings the start of the next but this New…

A Day for Giving Thanks Our readers in the United States know what day today is. But for all the…

Announcing the Conscious Breath Adventures Internship   We are looking for an intern This is an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend…

The One and Only Right Whale Festival   This weekend we attended and exhibited at the 11th annual Right Whale…

A Humpback Whale Calf Swims All the Way Around Out on the Silver Bank we see and swim with humpback…

By Cloe Waterfield The Critical Krill So far in this series on what humpback whales eat, we have covered the…

  Who doesn't love baby animals? And who doesn't love humpback whales? Everyone loves swimming with baby humpback whales! I…

Why Swim With Humpback Whales on the Silver Bank? Those who know me would probably agree that I am no…

Inspired and Energized by Cloe Waterfield   Yesterday was the largest display of action on climate change that we have…

How Do You Like Your Herring? by Cloe Waterfield Finally, in our series on What Do Humpback Whales Eat, a…

Men...what?! Menhaden by Cloe Waterfield How can so many of us be completely oblivious to a fish described as the…

The Secretive Sand Lance by Cloe Waterfield In this second installment of our series on the diet of humpback whales,…

Enjoy a few highlights, without getting wet!   Photos and video give us a great way to capture and study…

Happy Father's Day from the Silver Bank! by Cloe Waterfield In honor of Fathers Day we present eight key characteristics…

What Do Humpback Whales Eat? by Cloe Waterfield [caption id="attachment_5829" align="alignleft" width="367"] A mother humpback whale rests with her calf…

When Mom is Curious, Too At the start of every cruise, before our very first excursion out in our whaleboats…

A Song from the Silver Bank by Cloe Waterfield, May 22, 2019 One of the most incredible experiences we have…

Humpback Whale Behaviors: The Bubble Trail Sometimes observing one of the simplest of humpback whale behaviors can have the greatest…

Happy Mother's Day from the Silver Bank! As all moms know, giving birth and those first months in a newborn’s…

by Cloe Waterfield, April 30, 2019   The Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team, a group set up in 1996…

Greetings from Conscious Breath Adventures and welcome to our tenth Cruise Report for the last week of our 2019 Silver…

Greetings and welcome back to our combined Cruise Reports for Weeks 8 & 9 of our 2019 Silver Bank humpback…

Hello again to all our readers and welcome to our Cruise Report for Week 7 of Conscious Breath Adventures’ 2019…

Hello and greetings from the dock at Ocean World Marina, Cofresi Beach, Puerto Plata at the end of our sixth…

  Greetings to all our readers and welcome back to another issue of Conscious Breath Adventures’ Cruise Reports, this one…

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic March 2, 2019 Contact: Cloe Waterfield, Conscious Breath Adventures cloe@consciousbreathadventures.com 239-248-7101  …

Greetings! By now our loyal readers know that every week holds some similarities to others, but there is always something…

Greetings and welcome to the third edition of our 2019 Cruise Reports, bringing you highlights from the week of February 9–15…

Welcome to our Cruise Report for the week of February 2-8, our second cruise of our 2019 Silver Bank humpback…

Greetings and welcome back to Conscious Breath Adventures’ Cruise Reports, provided to our readers weekly during our annual Silver Bank…

In the Press with Conscious Planet Earth Not long ago I was contacted by Dr. Heather Blackall, manager for a…

In September, 2017, I received a text message from an old friend here in our hometown of Gainesville, alerting me…

Greetings to One and All, Hello and warm spring greetings from Florida! After a happy return home and a much…

A happy hello to all of our readers from Puerto Plata on the north coast of the sun-splashed Dominican Republic.…

Hello from the Dominican Republic and welcome to our Cruise Report for Week 8 of our 2018 Silver Bank humpback…

Greetings and welcome to this edition of our Cruise Reports, this for the week of March 10-16, 2018. Our guests included…

Humpback Whales Visit Our Mooring on the Silver Bank Not all whale experiences on the Silver Bank happen in the…

Greetings Whaleswimmers! Thanks for joining us here with our Cruise Report for the fifth week of our 2018 Silver Bank…

Greetings from the Dominican Republic between weeks 5 & 6 of our 2018 season! We here at Conscious Breath Adventures…

Greetings! Hello and welcome to the first Cruise Report of our 2018 humpback whale season, Conscious Breath Adventures’ tenth, and my…

Our third and final week in the Bahamas started on the rainy but warm afternoon of July 13th with guests…

Sunday, July 7: After boarding the boat in West End yesterday afternoon and a short cruise last night, our guests…

Greetings from West End, Grand Bahama, where we have just completed our first of three week-long cruises to swim with…

The International Whaling Commission (IWC), is the organization that deals with the management of whales around the world, best known…

Wow! The 2013 humpback whale season on the Silver Bank has come to an end. It was a wonderful few…

Variety was the keyword this week on the Silver Bank where it seemed like we never saw the same situation…

Sunday, March 17: Our first afternoon of Week 8 had us out in our whale boats, Pec & Fluke, looking…

We had an interesting assortment of guests aboard this week, including a group from the U.S., and folks from Belgium,…

This was Week 6 of our 2013 season, and guests from the US, France and Germany were treated to a…

Welcome to our Cruise Report for Week 5 of our 2013 Silver Bank humpback whale season. We are at the…

Sunday, February 17, 2013 Today began our fourth week among the humpback whales of the Silver Bank. We had a…

Sunday, February 10: Our third week started out with a bright and sunny morning with lots of whales to be…

A Tale of Humpback Whales and a Whale Shark Week 2 of the Conscious Breath Adventures 2013 humpback whale season…

Welcome to the first Cruise Report of the Conscious Breath Adventures 2013 Silver Bank humpback whale season. We are as…

WhaleFest was simply amazing! Bringing together top cetacean scientists, conservation advocates, whalewatching companies and nearly 6,000 of the ocean loving…

Today I am excited to announce the outcome of the 2012 Responsible Whale Watch Operator's Awards at the World Whale…

A crisp, autumnal weekend a few weeks hence will find us on the other side of the Atlantic. On the…

In the late spring of each year we bid farewell to our winter playmates as the humpback whales of the…

Report on a Special Edition of the Journal of Marine Biology I was planning on something a little more lighthearted…

Last week we covered female aspects of reproduction in humpback whales, let’s turn our attention now to the boys. The…

The promise of a new day Guests of Conscious Breath Adventures all know that every day in the Sanctuary for…

Like a Hollywood movie, working behind the scenes of one of the world’s greatest natural works of art – the…

Greetings to our readers here on Conscious Breath Adventures Latest News posts.  The big news from Conscious Breath Adventures, and…

The oceans breathe for us (producing half the planet’s oxygen), provide for us (seafood is the primary source of food…

It is estimated that over 300,000 cetaceans worldwide die each year as a result of entanglement in lost or active…

A special report on the 19th Biennial Society of Marine Mammalogy Conference in Tampa, Florida by Jodi Frediani. Wow, a…

Who doesn’t love dolphins, those cheery, bow-riding, promiscuous fellows, living the watery equivalent of the life of Riley? What their…

The oceans breathe for us (producing half the planet’s oxygen), provide for us (seafood is the primary source of food…

[caption id="attachment_20" align="alignright" width="320"] A mother humpback whale and calf on the Silver Bank[/caption] Each winter, up to 7,000 of…

The tiny Kingdom of Tonga, 176 islands and 100,000 people, in the clear blue, coral seas of the south Pacific…

Infamous as Moby Dick and also known as the cachalot (who was, ironically, caught a lot), is the sperm whale,…