Monday morning was a "sharky" kind of morning. As we traveled along, we saw five sharks - three basking sharks and two blue sharks. The calm seas helped immensely in looking for small dark fins breaking the surface.
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| Basking shark dorsal fin |
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| Subsurface blue shark |
Whale-wise, we watched a humpback whale and a fin whale. Both whales were spending only a few minutes underwater, allowing great looks in beautiful seas.
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Humpback whale
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| Fin whale |
On Monday afternoon, the first whale sighting of the trip was a pod of approximately 45 Atlantic white-sided dolphins. These toothed whales are always crowd-pleasers.
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| Atlantic white-sided dolphins leaping out of the water! |
Offshore, we got some great looks at a fin whale. We briefly stopped on an ocean sunfish on our ride in, and to our surprise (especially our passengers!), it breached right next to the boat. Wildlife has a way of keeping us on our toes!
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Fin whale
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Ocean sunfish moments before it breached! (I missed the breach, sorry!)
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The weather kept us on land on Tuesday, so we'll wait and see what the ocean has in store for us on our next adventure.
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