Barnacles Dolphin Centre opens at 07:00 am every day. Viewing times occurs between 07:00 and 08:00, while dolphin feeding, the only feeding sessions per day, starts from 08:00. When visitors arrive, they are encouraged to join the volunteers in the water.
This is a wonderful opportunity to get up close and personal with the resident pod and learn about their behaviour. Because these mammals tend to be shy, only a small group of people are allowed in the water at one time. There is a fee for both entry and feeding. Fish can be purchased on site and fed to the dolphins. You will be required to get into the water, so visitors should come prepared.
It is important for visitors to know that these Australian Humpbacks are wild. Barnacles Dolphin Centre cannot guarantee their arrival time, or that they will emerge at all. Patience, however, is often rewarded with this once-in-a-lifetime dolphin feeding experience in Tin Can Bay.