Happy Independence Day!
Today we had overcast skies but very calm seas, making whale
spotting a little easier for us. Minke whales were seen on both trips. We got
close enough to be able to tell some of them apart! And "Scar" was seen on the afternoon trip!
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| Scar Minke! |
We also found an ocean
sunfish on each trip today!
The difference
between today’s trips was that on the morning trip, we found a humpback whale.
This was Sedge again, who has been seen several times this season.
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| Sedge |
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| Sedge |
During the
afternoon trip, we came across a very rare sighting- a breaching right whale!
We made sure to keep our distance from this highly endangered whale and enjoyed
watching as it made big splashes leaping out of the water and tail-lobbing.
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| Cropped image of tail-lobbing |
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| Cropped image of V-shaped blow |
As we always say, we never know what we’ll
find from trip to trip, and today was no exception. The ocean continues to surprise
us which is why we love what we do!
Hope you all had a fantastic Fourth of July!
We were on the afternoon trip, we had an awesome time. I was hoping you would post more images of the right whale
ReplyDeleteWe were also on that watch. It was awesome to see the sunfish in front of me. We have some pics from that day and the next. We watched Animals Gone Wild on NATGW from 6/29/2015 and it shows some people in kayaks encountering the Southern Right Whale off the coast of Argentina and one actually ended up riding on the whales stomach. It's an awesome piece of footage if you get a chance to see it. See you next yr.!
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