This afternoon, we ventured out to see where the whales were at after yesterday's stormy weather. Storms often will push the bait fish around, and hence the whales. We started off by getting great looks at an ocean sunfish (possibly the same fish that was seen a couple of days ago!) and then found a very cooperative minke whale!
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| Minke whale |
As we were watching this one, we saw a huge fin whale not too far away. We headed over there, and waited, and waited, and waited, but after 15+ minutes of not seeing this whale return to the surface, we went back to our friendly minke whale.
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| Minke whale |
We spent a little more time with this creature before deciding to check out some other areas and eventually head home. During the trip, I talked about minke whale sounds, including the "Star Wars" sound produced by dwarf minke whales off Australia! Check out this video of a dwarf minke calling off Austraila!
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