Blue Ocean Society's Whale Sightings

Greetings! Thanks for visiting our blog. Our staff and interns will be posting their experiences here working on whale watch boats in NH and MA.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Sunday's Atlantic Queen Trip

Humpback Whale
This was one of those days where the suspense was built up for awhile, and finally we had an exciting finish! After much searching, we heard from one of the boats that whales had been spotted several miles away. We decided to take the gamble and headed south, where we found a pair of humpbacks.  We got great looks at the whales, although I didn't get very good fluke shots so I haven't identified this pair yet.  As we headed for home, we saw another single humpback.

Humpback Whale
One of the highlights for this trip for me (other than finally finding whales!) were the numerous northern gannets diving for fish - it was a spectacular display, with these birds flying high above the water, then plummeting quickly down for a fish.

Northern Gannet

Thanks to all who joined us today!


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1 comment:

Jelly Doughnut said...

Hope your second photo is not Cardhu, that would make 14+ nautical mile move in 24 hours!

Good Job! See you in the ticket office ;)