Welcome to the 2015 whale watch season! After a long, cold,
snowy winter, we couldn’t wait to get out on the water and we couldn’t have
asked for better weather for our first trip of the year.
We made our way toward Provincetown, the tip of Cape Cod. We
had sightings of several North Atlantic right whales, the most endangered large
whale species in the world. Because regulations require that vessels stay 500
yards away from right whales, we admired these animals at a distance and kept
traveling across Massachusetts Bay.
Once we reached the backside of the Cape, we saw lots of
diving northern gannets, gulls and double crested cormorants, as well as 5-6
finback whales that were feeding.
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| northern gannet |
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| finback whale |
We had
beautiful looks at a pair of massive finback whales and a single finback whale
that were circling the area subsurface feeding. Also in this area were two small groups of
harbor porpoise.
Just as we started to head home our Captain spotted the
flukes of a humpback whale.
We stayed with the humpback for several surfacings,
enough time to glimpse its beautiful tail as it dove.
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| humpback whale diving |
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| finback whales lunge feeding |
Just as we were leaving
the area, all three finback whale surfaced together side lunge feeding! Four
different marine mammal species and lots of activity was a fantastic way to
start the 2015 season!
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