Sunday, September 27, 2009

Sightings from our day on the Bay of Fundy






Hi Everyone
Yesterday i went out on two whale watching trips one at 10:30 in the morning and the other at 1:30 in the afternoon. Each trip we sighted humpback whales and on the 10:30 trip we also sighted a blow of a fin whale. It was to far away for us to catch up to so we continued to the buoys where we found Foggy, Chablis and Willow. Willow decided to leave the group and go off on his own. We continued to watch Foggy a female humpback i hold near and dear to my heart. I remember Foggy when her mother Bermuda brought her to our Island many years ago. Now she is a mother and had a calf last year. She didn't fluke up yesterday but she has a very distinct dorsal fin that is very curved. Chablis is a male who showed us his pectoral fin and his beautiful tail. I got a chance to take this picture of Chablis tail.
On our next trip the first humpback we sighted was Sockeye who has an overbite. His lower jaw juts out and up over the top. So that is the first thing you see! As we travelled closer to the buoy we sighted Willow again and then Sockeye and Willow joined up with each other. AS the sun started going down we could see lots of spouuts on the orizon but it was to far down for us t get there before the sun went down. As we started towards the buoy again we could see 5 whale spouts. By the time we got there they had dispersed, and then we sighted Squiggle and her calf. We didn't stay with them long because we sighted 4 spouts up ahead. They were busy feeding by the buoy and was not bringing up their tails to id but looking at their dorsals we figured out who three of them were. They were Southpaw, Baton, 0034, and an unknown. Gannets were diving everywhere, and Sooty and Greater Shearwaters were floating in huge rafts on the water. We also sighted two puffins and wilson storm petrels, porpoises and a seal. All in all we has a good clear day with lots of whales.

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