Felt like summer out there! It was whale soup! SO MANY WHALES WE COULDN’T KEEP TRACK! Usually we don’t get aggregations of fin whales until around May – but we got a call letting us know about a pair of fin whales just 8 miles off the coast – when we got there – WE FOUND AT LEAST 5 fin whales and two minke whales. We didn’t even have to track them or their direction of travel – they were circling all around us between dives to feed on what appeared to be some early arriving krill! Every time I’d point a whale out another would appear in the other direction! Fin whales spouts can be seen from miles away on. A clear calm day so – about two miles from these whales we started getting REALLY excited to see so much evidence of life.
Naturalist,
Alison
