We took in the sights of the coastline and spotted our first pod of Long-beaked Common dolphins of about 20 or so. Then our next pod upgraded to 100 then our next one was about 300! Every new pod we encountered doubled in size! We got amazing looks at cow/calf pairs of dolphins, a wish by one of our little passengers as she boarded the boat! We spotted some amazing feeding behaviors! Hundreds of birds diving feeding alongside the dolphins. We searched and searched for the big baleen whales among the hunting dolphins when finally, Captain Michael sighted a spout to the north! The humpback was sighted on our trip last night and has very interesting dorsal fin! It even came over to check us out! It swam subsurface next to our boat only 30-ft off our port side. It turned to go behind us! We waved goodbye to all the amazing activity to head back south. We encountered more Common dolphins along the way and they all seemed to be headed north! That’s where we are going on the next trip!
Hope to sea ya here!
Naturalist,
Vanessa
