Our Sunday Summer Solstice Sunset excursion really blew it out of the water, pun intended.
Heading towards the Dropoff, there was non stop massive splashes that could be seen 3-4 miles away!
We knew we were in for an amazing show if this level of activity kept up so we had all our fingers and toes crossed and we were not disappointed.
A singular humpback whale was putting on a non stop breachathon, and it kept up for the entire duration of the nearly 2 hours we spent with it! Up for a breath or 2, then a huge breach! Some full body with ballerina twist, some back breach, some front breach and some just lazy belly flops, But happened over 50 times!
This super star put on the full gambit of surface activity as well, including repetitive tail slaps and full blown wild tail lobs.
No full surface show is complete without some huge peck slaps, flailing those long pectoral fins on the surface of the water, we even got a bunch of double peck slaps, fins going in all directions.
A second humpback popped up briefly, as well as an excitable pod of ~200 short beaked common dolphins. Some of them had the absolute tiniest babies in tow!
If the trip couldn’t seem any more majestic, the sunset was a real show stopper.
I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Father’s Day!
With all the rare and spectacular sightings we had today, the crew was really also excited to see the Goodyear Blimp! That might have been the rarest sighting for us.
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads in our audience!
-Naturalist Ruth
