Summer is officially here! The wind was scheduled to kick into high gear Monday afternoon so we only had a morning trip. What were we lucky enough to find waiting for us offshore? FOG. Mother Nature decided to throw in her own excitement to start off the first full day of summer. But no worries, there were whales! We got some great looks at humpback whales Sedge and Satula even with the challenging visibility.
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Whale diving in the fog
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Sedge
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On our travels home through the Isles of Shoals we even spent a few minutes with a flotilla of mostly grey seals!
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Hello seal
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Seals on the move!
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It was another single-trip-only day on Tuesday. On our way offshore we saw a minke whale before finding Sedge still in the area.
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Minke whale
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Sedge (above and below)
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But Sedge wasn't the only whale in the area. Another humpback whale was traveling through. It was fun to see Grommet, even though this whale was on the move!
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Grommet was on a mission to somewhere
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Additionally, we had an ocean sunfish and three more minke whales as the seas got calmer and calmer.
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Ocean sunfish
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Minke whale at the surface in such calm conditions!
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For our birding friends, sightings have been few and far between. However, we are finally starting to see an uptick in petrels and we even had our first great shearwater!
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Wilson's storm petrel
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