The past few days have given us plenty to look at. On Monday morning, we watched four humpback whales, six fin whales, and a pod of Atlantic white-sided dolphins. Our humpback whales were scattered around, with a brief pairing of Pinball and Spoon. We haven't seen Pinball since mid-June. What a welcome surprise to see this whale back in our area, if only for a moment!
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Humpback whale
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| Welcome back Pinball! |
We also spent time with Clamp and Satula. While watching our fin whales, they were cruising through the water.
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Humpback whale
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| Fin whale |
The most impressive part was seeing two separate fin whale pairs (including a mother-calf pair) merge together with a pod of approximately 15 Atlantic white-sided dolphins!
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| Fin whales on the move |
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| Atlantic white-sided dolphins |
On Monday afternoon, we were once again watching dolphins associated with a baleen whale. This time, a pod of approximately 25 dolphins was associated with a humpback whale moving through the area.
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Humpback whale
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| Dolphin |
Further offshore, we saw four more humpback whales, three of which were associated with each other briefly.
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| Humpback whale |
We are working on some of our humpback whales' IDs, but Spoon and Valley were among them.
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| Pair of humpback whales |
Fun sightings continued on Tuesday. On our morning trip, we spent time with two fin whales and two humpback whales.
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| This fin whale is on a mission! |
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| Fin whale |
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| Humpback whale |
We have not yet matched our humpback whales, but they differ from the other two we had on Monday's trips! We also watched a basking shark swimming along, before giving us a quick tail flick and disappearing into the ocean depths.
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| Basking shark - the light-colored areas are healed scars |
On Tuesday afternoon, we started the trip with an ocean sunfish.
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| Ocean sunfish with a chunk of it's fin missing |
We then found one of the same humpback whales we saw during our morning trip, before coming across humpback whales Satula and Clamp.
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| Diving humpback whales (above and below) |
Clamp and Satula worked in the same general area, but only crossed paths once when they came together in the same bubble cloud. We were then privy to witness Satula flipper slapping numerous times. What a sight and sound!
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| Satula |
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Satula mid-flipper slap
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Before heading for home, we watched a pair of fin whales on the move. Beautiful.
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| Fin whales diving |
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