Went out whale watching with my husband this afternoon on the 1:30 cruise and went out the southern end of the Island. Along this shore you can see greenhead and then we sighted about 12 turkey vultures lining the shoreline.The rock ledges where seals like to lay to we sighted grey and harbor seals and on gull rock we sighted a immature bald eagle. Outside these ledges we could see a Minke whale surfing in the rip created by the ledges and then low and behold it started breaching over and over again. I captures these shots from our cruise. It was amazing to see and the Minke whale really seemed to be enjoying it as much as we enjoyed watching his acrobatics!
We then left the minke in search of humpback whales. About 6 miles off Western Light we sighted Cornucopia with another whale we couldn't Id because it didn't bring up its fluke. Further down we sighted another three humpbacks traveling together with about 6-8 atlantic white-sided dolphins! First ones i have seen all season. The three whales were Identified as Lace, Foggy, Vector. We also sighted : 1 Common tern, 1 Pomarine Jaegar, 6 puffins, wilson-storm petrels were everywhere, some greater and sooty shearwaters along with Northern Gannets. All in all we had a pretty fantastic trip!
2 comments:
June,
These minke breach shots are incredible!!
It was an incredible day! I don't know who was more excited the crew or the passengers!
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