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I had no problem snapping pics of this whale's blow, dives & tail lifts, but there were no spectacular breaches to catch. Oh well.
Listen well to a whale of a tale, of whale's tails and sea bearing sails!
Today, my family and I went off to Homer, Alaska with my father's boat in hopes of spotting humpback whales.
What a day it turned out to be. Service in the morning, a rush to get ready, and off we went to Homer, about a two hour drive from home. Whale after whale, we shot hundreds of pictures of tails, water spouts, and whale backs. It is amazing how interesting a whale's back can be, you know?
What a beautiful day it was.
The white whales give a show at the Vancouver Aquarium! They are impressive and very intelligent mammals!
Whales never breed in Antarctica, preferring the more temperate climates for their young. However, Antarctica is actually a hot spot for whales due to the rich pickings of marine food, including large numbers of krill!
Therefore, all Antarctic whale species migrate south during the summer months to take advantage of the nutrient rich sea.
Humpback whale feeding. They rise to the surface from beneath with the mouth wide open when they hit the surface. They then close their mouth and push the water through their baleen which act as a strainer separating the food from the water. The water passes through and the food stays behind and is consumed by the whale. Was great to see this!
Offshore
on Portuguese Princess
Whale Watch Ship
Provincetown
Cape Cod
Barnstable County
Massachusetts
USA 2002 🇺🇸
Whale Watching in Mossel Bay. (Right whales are baleen whales belonging to the family Balaenidae. Three right whale species are recognized in the genus Eubalaena, while the Bowhead Whale—also a right whale—is placed in its own genus, Balaena.)
Horrible shot, I know! But this is for my daughter Faye. All her life she has been a dolphin and whale fanatic. The week before when we were out on the boat, we had stopped for a few minutes so Isabel could switch seats and as she did, we talked about seeing dolphins. All of a sudden, a pod of dolphins swam in front of the boat. This Friday we were out (without Faye unfortunately) and we happened to see this whale. I wasn't really sure about this whole boat thing, but we've seen all sorts of wildlife. I now know it was the right thing to do.
And the funny thing is, a little while earlier we had passed a whale watching boat going the other way on it's way out in search of whales and we wondered if we should follow it. We didn't and I'm glad of it.
Maui is one of the world's finest whalewatch locations. Every year around November - May, Hawaii is home to more than 10,000 humpback whales. It's the primary place where North pacific humpback whales come to mate and give birth.
The whale is heading away. This is the young whale that was playing with kelp. You can see the tubercles on the front of the rostrum. Monterey Bay, California
Three humpback whales diving to get under the next school of fish and begin their bubble nest feeding again. All this took place on our excursion out of Juneau, Alaska.