Overcast, cool and humpback whales.
- Bob Perry
- May 3
- 1 min read
The 9a morning trip sky was overcast, the sea very glassy. There was a hardly noticeable swell from southwest. On the 12noon trip, skies remained overcast and wind slowly increased during the trip until we had some moderate white caps after 1:30 PM Totals for the trip: 7 humpback whales, 3 watched closely, and one quick glipse at a basking shark.
We ran southwest towards The Buoy, then moved east from there. Around 1008a we spotted a breach in the distance which led us to 3 single whales and a pair. We decide to stay with the pair. After an extremely long downtime, they came up. They had long surface times and short down times. Tails were shown several times during their dive cycle. The pair was in slow travel towards the northeast.
Our first stop was about 12:50pm as deckhand Benson put the gaff on a nice cluster of drifting balloon debris from the ocean surface. About 10 minutes later we had a quick look at the big triangular dorsal fin of a basking shark. It sank out almost immediately from view.
Continuing southwest, around 1:30pm we had one quick sighting of a single humpback whale. We continued and then turned east put the wind behind us.
Just before 2 o'clock we had a second whale that also had long downtimes and short surface times. We had three quick look's at this one before heading back to the Harbor.
You never know what Mother Nature has in store.
Bob Perry
