Whalewatching tour: Part 2 - Whales, whales, whales

A trip to Nuevo Vallarta is incomplete without taking in a whalewatching tour. During the winter, the waters of the Banderas Bay are filled with magic as the humpbacks migrate south from the Alaskan waters to breed and calve.

For this tour, we signed up with Kontiki and boy, did we have the time of our lives. We didn't expect to see so many whales on this tour but there they were, in pods of five or more, breaching (jumping) near our boat and slapping the water. They were incredibly acrobatic, considering their massive sizes (79,000 lbs) and appeared to be having the time of their lives in the warm waters of the bay.

VIDEO: A pair of humpbacks breaching near our boat.

VIDEO: Several whales breaching and spouting.