{"id":278748,"date":"2025-11-12T00:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278748\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:31:13","slug":"marine-wildlife-sightings-galore-aboard-ponants-le-soleal-on-a-fremantle-to-broome-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278748\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine wildlife sightings galore aboard Ponant\u2019s Le Sol\u00e9al on a Fremantle to Broome cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Meagher<\/p>\n<p>Nov 12, 2025 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>Humpback whales evoke a degree of reverence like few other animals. Which is why, on our first day of sailing from Fremantle to Broome aboard Ponant\u2019s Le Sol\u00e9al, there\u2019s an instantaneous sound of cabin doors being flung open and a rush of footsteps when, mid-morning, the captain announces that the bridge is open and, \u201cby the way, there are some whales being playful just in front of the ship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"_78513498480b2b42-image\" data-testid=\"Image-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a5158678cfbd27751987b666844b8e56c6429ecd.jpeg\"   data-id=\"a5158678cfbd27751987b666844b8e56c6429ecd\" data-pb-im-config=\"{&quot;aspectRatio&quot;:1.5,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;landscape3x2&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:414,&quot;urls&quot;:[&quot;https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.158%2C$multiply_4%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/c_scale%2Cw_414%2Cq_88%2Cf_auto\/a5158678cfbd27751987b666844b8e56c6429ecd&quot;,&quot; https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.158%2C$multiply_4%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/c_scale%2Cw_828%2Cq_52%2Cf_auto\/a5158678cfbd27751987b666844b8e56c6429ecd 2x&quot;]}\" width=\"414\" height=\"276\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Ponant\u2019s Le Lap\u00e9rouse has sailed the Kimberley coast.\u00a0Nick Rains <\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Meagher Nov 12, 2025 \u2013 5.00am Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-278748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}