By Lizzy Pepper. The northernmost national park on the California coast, Redwood National and State Parks is home to a year-round gray whale population that resides near the Klamath River Overlook. Tadoussac, Quebec. Their annual migration from Antarctica to Queensland covers 10,000 km’s (5000km each way) between May – November. Witness these incredible mammals as they swim through the pristine waters surrounding the Margaret River region. Each year thousands of humpback whales and rare blue whales make their annual migration along the Western Australian coast. Hervey Bay has now been recognised as the only genuine stop-over on the humpback whales' southern migration along Australia's east coast and is known as the whale … The Atlantic holds the whale jackpot, with more than 20 species lurking offshore and plenty of places to take to the waters. whaling so efficient that many whale species were over-exploited in the 20th century and came very close to extinction. Whale Watching Week begins Thursday during the peak of grey whale migrations along the Oregon Coast. By the time the International East coast. Photos supplied by Legends Charters and Geographe Maritime Whale Watching & Bay Cruises. Every year of their lives they swim more than 10,000 miles roundtrip, between nursery lagoons in Mexico to feeding grounds in the Arctic. Learn more about these aquatic giants as well as where and when you can catch a glimpse of blue whales off the coast of the United States. Whale watching in NSW Every year, whales migrate along the NSW coastline. They head north to the warm coastal waters of Queensland and the Coral Sea to mate and give birth from late April to August, and return southwards from around September to November. This week is a great time to make it happen. Want to spot nature’s largest animal in the wild? In a nifty feat of geography, the warm, fresh waters of the Saguenay River jet out atop the frigid, salt waters of the St Lawrence River, churning up massive volumes of krill. Despite being the largest animals ever known to have lived on earth, much about blue whales and their migrational patterns is still a mystery to scientists. When southern right whales and blue whales became scarce, Australian whalers began to target humpback whales, killing approximately 8300 off the east coast between 1949 and 1962. Other places to see whales during the winter migration include Crescent Beach Overlook, Gold Bluffs Beach, High Bluff Overlook, the Thomas H. Kuchel Visitor Center, and Wilson Creek. Gray Whale Migration Gray whales make one of the longest migrations of any mammal on earth.