Thursday morning we began our sightings with with quite a few brief looks at some distant whales. As we made our way out towards the ledge, we caught glimpses of a fin whale, minke whale, and a humpback, who turned out to be Satula.
Distant fin whale
Satula diving
We were unable to get much closer to any of these whales as they were doing a good job of covering great distances between their surfacings, so we chose to press on. After doing some more searching, we were able to spot some distant splashing, which revealed itself to be a decent sized pod of Atlantic white-sided dolphins, about 100 or so!
White-sided dolphins
After getting some excellent looks at those toothed whales, we pressed on just a bit further before getting to spend some time with a pair of humpback whales, Pitcher and Valley.
Humpback whales resting at surface
These two whales were continuing our very impressive streak of coming across sleeping whales at the surface this year.
Thursday afternoon, we made our way back out to where we had found success in the morning, and as luck would have it, our trip started with a pod of around 60 white-sided dolphins!
White-sided dolphins
Our sightings of these dolphins have definitely started to become more consistent as our season has progressed, so always a fun sighting to have on board.
Humpback whale diving
After leaving our dolphins behind, we came across another sleepy humpback whale for the day, Patches. This whale spent a lot of time sleeping near the surface, so as to not disturb it, we continued on with our day. This eventually led us to some very active humpback whales, Valley and Ravine!
Humpback flipper slapping
Valley tail lobbing
Valley repeatedly slapped her flippers against the surface before eventually slapping her tail at the surface as well. All the while, Ravine was displaying some surface feeding just nearby. An amazing way for us to cap off our trip!
Both the morning and afternoon trips were cancelled due to unfavorable sea conditions, but Saturday morning is looking to be gorgeous!
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