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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Saturday, July 4



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!




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. 
Sedge
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.   
Cropped image of tail-lobbing

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!

2 comments:

  1. We were on the afternoon trip, we had an awesome time. I was hoping you would post more images of the right whale

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  2. We 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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