Blue Ocean Society's Whale Sightings

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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

August 9 - Atlantic Queen

So many whales on yesterday's trip on the Atlantic Queen! We spotted a few blows fairly early into our journey, and were happy to find a small group of Sei whales! We don't see these baleen whales very often, so it was exciting to get some good looks at them.

A few Sei whales then turned into A LOT of whales! We saw at least a dozen just in our immediate area - it seemed like whichever direction you looked, you could see another blow or dorsal fin!


We had one trio of whales that stayed particularly close to our boat - they were surfacing very frequently and two of them seemed to be staying close together, so I believe it may have been a mother and calf!


We also had a great Minke whale, who circled around our boat a few times, so close that you could actually see it swimming just under the surface!




On the last surfacing before we headed back to the harbor, we had a big surprise - an endangered North Atlantic Right Whale appeared amidst the Sei whales we had been observing! We got some amazing looks at this rare animal to end our great day of whale watching.

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