Wednesdays seem to be my day. I agree with our co-founder's post earlier this week in which she mentioned it's the quality of the trip and time spent with the whales observing their natural behavior, not the quantity of sightings, that is important. Still, I can't help but be excited when we see four different species (we call that a grand slam, and this has happened for us 3 times on Wednesdays!) and the sheer number of whales that we saw today. I can't get over how fortunate we've been this season. It's been the best season I can remember, and feel so grateful to spend time with these fascinating animals day after day.
Will post more pics later, but wanted to share a couple and sum up the trip. Started out with a playful pod of about 75 Atlantic white-sided dolphins, traveling near a fin whale (maybe our fin whale #0532?) only a few miles east of the Isles of Shoals. It's always a treat to see dolphins, and this was probably only the 4th or 5th time I've seen them this season!
Then we kept heading east, and seemed to encounter whale after whale, until we eventually got out onto the Ledge and there were lots of humpbacks around. Along the way, we got great looks at several fin whales, and a quick glimpse of a minke, the smallest baleen whale we have here.
I'm still waiting to confirm some ID's, but humpbacks we saw included Flask (our "mascot," you can adopt him on our web site and learn about him all year), Glostick, Tornado, and, I think, Chromosome and Tripod, who were slowly, sleepily moseying along while the rest of the whales bubble fed, flipper slapped and breached nearby!
Glostick Lunge-feedingThanks to Camp Regis for joining us again, and all of our passengers who joined us today. It was a real treat when one of the camp counselors told me, "this is the best thing I've done in my life, ever." It was fun having all of you on board and we hope to see you again soon.
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