Whale Watching
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(Balaenoptera acutorostrata) I was pleased with this composition of a minke whale with a puffin and a great black backed gull.
Many sightings on Monday of these magnificent creatures from the Star of Honolulu ship on a perfect day on the Pacific Ocean.
The 'Vivid' drone whale
'Written In The Stars'
The Drone Light Show.
Part of the Vivid Sydney Light Show 2023.
Photographed from along the Sydney Harbour Bridge walkway.
Next to the south-eastern pylon.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
A Legacy 'Candy' filter from the Flickr Photo Editor.
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was a whale
With a very long tail,
Whose movements were frantic
Across the Atlantic.
-Edward Lear
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Humpback Whale tail fin or flukes in blue water offshore from the coast of Port Stephens. If you look closly you can see the fine bits of spray from the flukes. NSW, Australia.
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A pod of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) swims in search of salmon or other prey along the west shores of Alaska near Juneau, U.S.A.
The male is easily identified by the tall, straight dorsal fin and this pod was observed during a recreational cruise to Alaska.
8 June, 2010.
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A glorious sunrise shining through the Whale bones arch overlooking Whitby on the North York Moors Coast.
Photo not by me , my brother took it whilst in Japan and i thought what a great pic well done brother John and thanks for letting me share it.
On the Port Stephens coastline of NSW , those small whit pillars are resting places for people while they watch whales on their migrations up and down the coast , such a beautiful spot too ! , the whales migrating I mean
Whale watchers now watching seagulls on their return to Fisherman's Wharf.
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The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta claims to be the largest aquarium in the world. One of its signature exhibits is an enormous saltwater tank that has a whale shark along with hundreds of other fish.
This is a baby Humpback Whale breaching off the tip of the Baja peninsula. You can see here that it has its eye closed during the breach. It appeared to be copying its mother, who was enormous and breaching spectacularly, but the youngster could not achieve such a big splash. Humpbacks usually have lots of barnacles attached, particularly on the face and flippers, but this one is too young for these. Those rows of tubercles on the face are a normal part of a Humpback Whale.
Humpback whales pass along the coast going north. I captured this mum and calf near the heads of Sydney Harbour
I took the chance of whale watching at Provincetown / Massachusetts...simply great for seeing them in the wild.
Humpback whale, Iceland
The humpback whale can be seen all around Icelandic waters. The humpback whale is much stockier than the other rorquals and has a characteristic warty nose. It can reach up to 17 m length and 40 t in weight. Humpback whales have exceptionally long, up to 2 m long pectoral fins. Humpbacks may slap the water's surface with one or both pectoral fins simultaneously.
In the early spring, the humpbacks begin their long journey from the Gulf of Mexico to Iceland. The whales swim for about a month before they reach the southern coastal waters of Iceland. By the end of October and early November, most of the humpback whales are well fed and prepared for their seasonal migration back to the Gulf of Mexico.
Humpback whale does not possess teeth, so it must capture its food using various hunting methods. One technique these whales use is known as bubble netting. Bubble netting is a group activity.
One group of whales will swim below a large group of fish and form a circle, which they use to herd the fish together. The group then begins blowing bubbles to enclose and shrink the circle of fish and compact the fish into a tight herd. Once they’ve herded the fish together, they can then take turns swimming through the herd consuming as many fish as possible.
Oh what stories they would have. A Humpback whale submerges after lunge feeding off the Antarctic coast. Their annual summer pilgrimage is driven by the availability of the largest biomass of animals in the world.......krill.
There is a hill not far from here that is actually designated the "Whalers' Lookout Conservation Area". That's because during the 19th century whalers actually did put spotters up there as the migratory path of the whales took them up the east coast. They were mostly Sperm and Humpback Whales, but some of the majestic Blue Whales were captured as well. But the turn of the 20th century they were all but extinct in these waters.
The good news is that currently whale numbers are at almost record levels, and although we didn't catch a glimpse of whales on this day, they are certainly out there. ourworld.unu.edu/en/humpback-whales-make-a-comeback-in-au...
Here is a list of the range of Cetaceans seen in Tasmanian waters today:
Humpback whale jumping with an "Air Madagascar" plane overhead passing in the sky, , sea around Sainte Marie island, Madagascar
In Southern winter - from June to the end of September - the sea around Sainte Marie island, on the Eastern shore of Madagascar, offers one of the most natural fascinating spectacles in the world. Large groups of humpback whales - Megaptera novaeangliae - make their annual migration from the Antarctic to the sheltered waters around Ste Marie island where they calve, nurse their young and engage in their spectacular courtship rituals between the end of June and September.
For months, humpback whales can be seen wondering in the ocean as they move and jump out of the sea in the narrow canal that separates the island from the mainland.
Taken during a wonderful outing on Trinity Bay, Newfoundland with Kris Prince ( www.flickr.com/people/126806542@N08/ ) of "Sea of Whales Adventures"
It was a grey day, with rain clouds rolling in, when this humpback whale (megaptera novaeangliae) surfaced beside our small fishing boat - made the weather seem irrelevant!! Photographed near Inhaca island, in Mozambique.
Whale watching on a cruise on Monterey Bay, California last year, we saw many Humpbacks often 2 or more at a time.
Taken from the deck of MS FRAM, on the 1.5.2020.
Canon 5D Mark IV, f/5.6, focal length-270mm, 1/2000sec., ISO-3200.
At that afternoon on our way to South Georgia a group of 200 Humpback whales gathered very closely around our ship and gave us an amazing show for a whole half an hour or more. The whales were almost touching our ship so I was able to take this amazing picture just from above it!
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Hopefully we all made it through Thanksgiving. I've never been a real fan of Turkey meat but the Ham is great. My mother use to make the Ham with Pineapples on top for extra flavor. Which do you like?
If you wish to see the valleys, climb to the top of the mountain. If you want to see the top of the mountain, rise above the cloud. But if you try to understand the cloud, close your eyes and think.
A fantastic whale watching trip this morning/afternoon. A breach 10 metres off our bow and lots more. Unfortunately I struggled with the photography. The swell, the rolling of the boat, the people, the harsh light and so on. The whales are above the water surface only for a short time and their activity is only partially predictable. Most of the viewing is from more than 100 metres.
Taken on Bleaker Island in the Falkland Islands. Watching the wildlife in the South Atlantic and enjoying the remote piece and quiet is a truly amazing and inspiring experience.
Gee I had a fun day out the other morning. The colour in the sky was just beautiful so I got a couple of snaps to remember it by. This one is a (3 minute) "Strike that..this one was at 45sec) single exposure and I did try numerous crops and was tempted to post one with the cliff in the background removed but in my eye, the result seemed a bit too tight. I was tucked inside a cave as well so the angle was a bit constrained otherwise I would have shot it without the cliff in the first place. But looking back, the cliff does add a sense of depth.
Anyway...thanks for looking