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One of the main parts of our summer holidays this year was a long-delayed visit to the Parc National du Fjord du Saguenay, where the Saguenay River or Fjord meets the Saint Laurent Stream. Here waters from the Atlantic (which is over 1200km away), the Fjord and the Saint Laurent mix, and this together with an interesting sub-surface topography leads to rich underwater wildlife, resulting also in multiple whale species visiting or even calling this their breeding territory. Here you see a minke whale which came very close to our canoes. Very impressive, incredibly calming, and hard to take a picture of as the canoe was moving. I am glad we had a two-seat canoe so my wife was able to keep us steady in pretty windy conditions.
Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) swim along the entrance to "Work Channel" north of Prince Rupert along the west coast of British Columbia, Canada.
One does a shallow dive while another surfaces next to it and takes a breath.
Just to the west of this location is the southern tip of the Alaskan panhandle.
15 July, 2018.
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... about killer whales (orcas) when I saw this massive and powerful skull in the Natural History Museum at Tring. I knew about the bite power of crocodiles and, of course, of that of the celebrated Tyrannosaurus Rex. Size-wise, the teeth of this orca are rather similar to that of Tyrannosaurus and, just a hunch it may be, I fear the crown of the most powerful bite in the history of evolution might be taken away from T-Rex. Fuji X-E2.
An Alaska whale that came up to the water surface very close to our tour boat. It actually splashed everyone on our boat. It was an amazing experience but this was one of the only photos that I got that was worth sharing. Unfortunately, the lighting was very harsh. I took this photo in Alaska on 5/9/23.
This cloud reminds me of a whale tail about to slap the water and splash water everywhere. In reality, it did bring a small shower of rain with it once it reached land.
Photo taken Chambers Bay Golf Course, University Place, Washington State, USA
A 72 foot (21.9m) juvenile blue whale skeleton at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in Santa Barbara, CA.
Fortunately we didn't stay at the Whale Inn in Depoe Bay. The day after I took this shot, we drove past again and saw a giant track hoe taking bites of it and loading the pieces into a truck.
Happy Window Wednesday!
Megaptera novaeangliae,
Off the Cayucos Pier,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
We witnessed fish boil out of the ocean just preceding the whale's lunge out of the water, quite a sight in itself. And at this stage some of these fish have jumped out of the whale's maw.
he whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species.
Sydney Harbour - June 2012.
This is a single photo of two whales - not a photo stitch. You can tell by their 'fingerprint' as each whale's tail is different. Very lucky that day!
Feel free to view my other photos in my whale album.
Sperm Whale.
The way to tell the different whales apart is looking at the fluke/tail of the whale. Each and every fluke is different and it is almost like the whale’s fingerprint. Each whale listed in the catalogue has a photo of the underside of the tail and they are then listed under different ID codes depending on what the tail looks like and a number, example:
I shot this back in 2014 but it had a couple of flaws so I decided not to fix or post. Saw it again the other night and decided it's not that bad so quick fix and it's up here. Better than on the hard drive...
It's the time of the year - the whales have arrived!
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I was in a Dory, photographing the huge iceberg............
This Humpback Whale surfaced, and my goodness, what a sensation!
The whale was about 10 meters in length. Everything was so close, and awe-inspiring!
Thanks for looking, etc. :)
Whale Beach North, or "The Wedge" as it is known locally, is dominated by this large rock standing slightly separated from the shelf.
The ocean surges strongly through the channel in both directions. I have been eying out this location for a while, and finally the conditions were perfect to get close enough to get this angle.
Mural "Whale" by Swiss artists duo Nevercrew on the pavement of Rue à Degrée in Mons, Belgium.
Nevercrew is a duo of Swiss artists composed of Christian Rebecchi & Pablo Togni. They have worked together since 1996 and the subjects they deal with are the human condition, the relationship between man and nature (and vice versa) and the impact of economic or social systems on the environment. Most of Nevercrew's creations depict animals that are lost, in trouble, or imprisoned. Each painting denounces in its own way the misfortunes endured by nature because of human activity. (...)
Inspired by the name of the street, “Degree Street”, they used the reference to temperature, rise/increase and descent/fall/decrease.
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Nevercrew est un duo d’artistes suisses composé de Christian Rebecchi & Pablo Togni. Ils travaillent ensemble depuis 1996 et les sujets qu’ils traitent sont la condition humaine, la relation entre l'homme et la nature (et inversement) ou encore l’impact des systèmes économiques ou sociaux sur l’environnement. La plupart des créations de Nevercrew représentent des animaux perdus, en mauvaise posture ou emprisonnés. Chaque peinture dénonce à sa manière les malheurs endurés par la nature à cause de l’activité humaine. (...)
Inspiré par le nom de la rue, la « Rue à Degrée », ils ont utilisé la référence à la température, la montée/l'augmentation et la descente/la chute/la diminution.
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The Western Pacific Humpback Whale population has its breeding grounds off the east coast of Australia. On a whale watching trip we saw two mum-and-calf duos. A lot of whales seen but nothing dramatic and what breaches there were were very far away.
Our LandCare working bee was on Cuttagee headland Sunday just gone. It was a pleasant surprise to find this painted rock on display. The humpback whale migration occurs between May and November in eastern Australia and Cuttagee headland is a great vantage point, especially from now to early November when hundreds of whales, many with calves, make their return journey southwards to Antarctica. Uplifting to think someone thought to honour this ritual. First time we've witnessed the painted stone offering at this site.
Went whale watching the other day and saw this whale. According to the guide who has been logging whales in the area for a few years, this one is called Music. I don't know how she names the whales, maybe something to do with their tail markings.
On our visit on Borkum we found an old house. It belongs to a family with old tradition. One of the first was a whale hunter and brought always whale bones home and build a fence out of it. That was great to look at.
Had an amazing experience encountering a superpod of thousands of Northern Right Whale Dolphins and Pacific White-Sided Dolphins grouped together in Monterey Bay, CA.
I've had a number of opportunities to get out on the ocean in recent years. My favorite thing to see when doing so is a whale breaching. I don't know when I'll get out there again, so for now I'll revisit breaches like this humpback from last fall. #YBS25Nature
From a whale watching cruise on the St. Lawrence River in 2008 (processed with a touch of digital art).
A whale's tail is called its flukes. A whale's tail is composed of two lobes, each of which is called a fluke. There is a notch, a v-shaped indentation where the flukes (or lobes) of a whale's tail meet. Flukes move up and down to propel the whale through the water.
We watched this young humpback feeding along the edge of the kelp bed. He appeared to be alone and was just lazily swimming back and forth.
Best viewed large.
8:09 a.m. -- Humpback whale, seen from Marine Avenue, Powell River, B.C., Canada.
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Our tour out of Boothbay Harbor in Maine took us to find whales. We found one, but what a show she put on! Her name is Victim, so named for her injury to her tail, which you can see on the right side on the tail pic. Like fingerprints for us, no two whale tails are the same. This gal breeched for us 13 or 14 times, a record for our guide. Pretty darn cool!