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Taken handheld using a Nikkor 200-500mm lens while travelling in a big boat at Mirissa, Sri Lanka.
It was a great experience for us. Within 3 hours we had 6 sightings.
The whale watching season in Sri Lanka runs from from November to April / May, as during the rest of the year, the waters will be too rough because of the Monsoon. The best place to spot whales is in Mirissa, a small tourist town on Sri Lanka's south coast, popular for surfing and famous for whale watching
Despite their incredible size, the Blue Whale will consume only krill (one of the early life stages of shrimp). A single Blue Whale could consume up to 6 tonnes of krill in a day. Fortunately for the whales, krill is found in abundance off Sri Lanka's southern coast.
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Taken handheld using a Nikkor 200-500mm lens while travelling in a big boat at Mirissa, Sri Lanka.
It was a great experience for us. Within 3 hours we had 6 sightings.
The whale watching season in Sri Lanka runs from from November to April / May, as during the rest of the year, the waters will be too rough because of the Monsoon. The best place to spot whales is in Mirissa, a small tourist town on Sri Lanka's south coast, popular for surfing and famous for whale watching
Despite their incredible size, the Blue Whale will consume only krill (one of the early life stages of shrimp). A single Blue Whale could consume up to 6 tonnes of krill in a day. Fortunately for the whales, krill is found in abundance off Sri Lanka's southern coast
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An early morning shot from the beach at Mirissa, in Sri Lanka. The large rock is an island at high tide but can be reached, with only a little paddling, at low tide.
Mirissa is one of the most popular beach destinations in southern Sri Lanka, and for a good reason! The area has it all, beautiful Sri Lankan beaches, great waves for surfing, and waters teeming with marine life, from turtles to big blue whales.
1 thought I would be lucky to see even one blue whale (balaenoptera musculus) when boarding a boat in Mirissa, Sri Lanka. So how lucky was I to see two, going in opposite directions, the farther one sending up a fine mist from its blowhole? More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography & Fishing Travels" - www.colin-pacitti.com.
Part of a large pod of short-finned pilot whales that approached our boat when I was looking for blue whales off the coast of Mirissa, in Sri Lanka. More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography & Fishing Travels" - www.colin-pacitti.com.
These two short-finned pilot whales (globicephala macrorhynchus) put in a brief appearance off the coast of Mirissa, in Sri Lanka. They are members of the dolphin family but behave more like whales, feeding mainly on squid at depths of 300 metres or more. Their Latin name derives in part from the bulbous nature of their heads. More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography" - www.colin-pacitti.com.
Matara District/Southern Province/Sri Lanka
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The second blue whale (balaenoptera musculus) we saw off the coast of Mirissa, Sri Lanka. Despite the fact that the whale was only partially visible above the surface, we did get an idea of its immensity when we looked at the distance between the "blow" and the dorsal fin. More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography & Fishing Travels" - www.colin-pacitti.com.