This morning we had glassy-calm conditions and saw a few harbor
porpoises and an elusive fin whale before seeing something very
unexpected: a pair of north Atlantic right whales skim feeding at the
surface! This was awesome and inspiring as this is a critically
endangered s
pecies (only about 500 left)
and I felt very humbled to be able to spend a little time with them, if
even from a distance.
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| Two right whales skim feeding |
The trip continued with several minke whale
sightings including several views of "Scar" the adoptable minke whale.
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| SCAR minke whale |
We've been watching Scar since 1995 and are always thrilled to see him
return year after year!
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| another minke whale! |
On our way home, we swung by the right whales
again, mostly to ensure that boats zooming through the area wouldn't hit
them.
This afternoon, we
found at least 4 minke whales, 2 fin whales (including #0354), a pod of harbor porpoises
and 2 right whales.
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| minke whale |
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| Fin whale #0354 |
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| right whale flukes |
We are still working on our photo analysis, but are
pretty sure these were the same 2 that we saw on the morning trip,
however they had moved quite some distance in just a few hours. Again, this is why our crew loves whale watching- we never know what we will find and where it will be!
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