Whale Watch Information?

[omly]

Does anyone know of any place other than the New England Aquarium Whale Watches? I was thinking of organizing a trip out with my research group and associated others, but I wanted to find a couple different places. Most of my searches for a whale watch in the Boston area are just coming up with this one. Also thoughts from people who had used whale watches in the area would be appreciated. I have only gone on the south shore and am not sure if there are more options in the city.

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[sarah-barah.livejournal.com]

This may be useless information, but my dad used to be a captain for Baystate Cruise Company that was run out of Boston. They did whale watches, trips to George's Island and P-town among other things. However, they downsized drasticly quite a while ago and may not still do the whale watches. I just tried looking them up and I don't see anything about whale watches on the site...:-\ sorry.

[omly.livejournal.com]

It seems like there is little to no competition in the Boston area which is weird. And when did your dad do that? Was it related to what he does now, because I thought his department was a government funding-type.

[sarah-barah.livejournal.com]

That is weird, I feel like there used to be more. He worked two jobs for most of my life, one for the state (environmental police officer) and the other for a long long time was for Baystate (where he met my mom, actually). They let a loooot of employees go when they downsized and sold off several of the boats when the company changed hands, which was probably when I was in middle school. Since then he continued to work for the state and then took up another side job captaining for Harbor Express.