Monday on the Prince of Whales

What an awesome day today! You folks certainly know how to pick your day! The sky was clear and the seas were glassy calm- we could look right into the water and see the whole bodies of all the whales we found! At one point, we could even see the whale's eye!

Our first amazing sighting was of a mother finback whale and her new calf! The calf was very cute, poking its snout out a little more than necessary! We got great looks at that white lower jaw, and even saw the pair nursing, evidenced by the milk in the water near the mother!

Finback whale calf

As we continued on, we found Tornado, a 21 year old female humpback whale who was hanging out with Cygnus (also named Sabre), a male who is at least 29 years old! These two humpbacks were flipper slapping together for a good amount of time before they then decided to take a nap!

Tornado's flipper

Humpback whale flippers

Tornado's fluke

Cygnus' dorsal fin, Tornado's fluke

Cygnus' fluke

In the distance, we noticed another humpback whale who was breaching- jumping out of the water! Of course, once we got in the area, it stopped and was also napping, but we still got some great looks at it! Turns out this was Glostick, a humpback whale that was seen last week!

We also saw tons of great birds including greater and sooty shearwaters and northern gannets diving to catch the fish that the whales missed!

Sooty shearwaters taking off

Northern gannet taking off

Check out those barnacles on the humpback whale's tail!

Thanks for visiting the whales with us today!


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