WOW! Today was a wonderful day. We had beautiful clear weather and it was very nice out on the water. We took a 28 mile trek on the Capt. Rudy Thomas out of Plymouth and what a sighting we had. Our trip started out with one humpback that was a delight to watch as it surfaced multiple times and was going on short dives. Then we moved on to another humpback that was subsurface feeding, and was also surfacing fairly quickly.
In one of the photos you will see in this post the pilot whales have one blowhole meaning they are toothed whales. Humpbacks, or the baleen whales, have two blowholes. The even cooler part of this sighting was that we had a mother and calf pair in this pod.
The mother would surface and the little baby would swim right behind her. These animals can be about 20 feet in length, and are quite adorable, which is the best scientific description that I can come up with. After watching them for a few minutes we did have to start heading back to Plymouth, but our whale watch didn't end there.
Once we got closer to home we found a small group of harbor porpoises, but unfortunately I only have splash photos of this group because I wasn't fast enough when they came up to the surface. We also did have a great sighting of a northern gannet taking off from the water, and small groups or greater and sooty shearwaters. What a great day! I could not have been happier!
