This morning was a beautifully calm day on the ocean. We passed by a small group of harbor porpoises and a harbor seal on the way out to Jeffreys Ledge. We spotted a large whale in the distance and as we moved closer to get a better look, two minke whales surfaced not far away. The large whale was a humpback who was easy to identify based on the distinctive scar/injury on her back. Owl! She was surfacing frequently and close- at one point she even swam under the boat! We love this whale!
After a bit we moved on in search of more whales. Our special guest onboard, RyRy, who has decades of experience looking for whales, spotted a breaching whale miles in the opposite direction. We turned and eventually found a humpback named Spika, who jumped out of the water several times and began to flipper-slap! What a sight to see!
On our journey home, we saw another humpback whale named Ditto and a quick look at a basking shark.
The afternoon trip was a bit quieter. We found Owl again,
but she was pretty mellow and just paddling along at the surface.
A minke whale and a couple of harbor porpoises were seen in the distance, and then we found another humpback whale. This one wasn’t showing flukes, but we could ID it as Clamp upon later inspection of our photos!
We continued home, but encountered yet another humpback whale. This one looked smaller than the ones we saw earlier, and wasn’t bringing its flukes very high, so it took us a bit to figure out who it was. On our way home, we matched it to Ghostship, a recently named whale we have seen briefly the past two years!
We also spotted a seal, a fin whale from a distance, and later, close to the Isles of Shoals, a flock of five glossy ibis!
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