9 am trip - Tammy
We were lucky enough to see active whales on both whale watching trips today! Large splashes in the distance caught our attention as we traveled across Stellwagen Bank. This active whale was a humpback named Bayou.
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| humpback whale Bayou |
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| a chin breach by Bayou |
Bayou showed us the full range of humpback whale behaviors from lobtailing to all types of breaching.
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| spinning head breach by Bayou |
Bayou breached, lobtailed and flipper slapped repeatedly for about 20 minutes! It was amazing to see these high energy behaviors over and over again.
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| tail breach by Bayou |
Our second sighting was another humpback whale named Venom. This female humpback was alternating between traveling and diving. We spent the rest of our morning Venom before heading back.
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| Venom's tail |
2 pm trip - Tammy
We were excited to see that some animals were still active into this afternoon, which does not always happen. Two humpback whales were exhibiting acrobatic behaviors; first about 100 yards apart and then they got closer together. We identfied this pair as Northstar and Hippocampus.
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| Northstar (bottom) and Hippocampus (top) |
Again we were treated to breaching, lobtailing, flipper-slapping complete with rolling and trumpeting by the whales.
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| Humpback whale breaching off our stern |
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| lobtailing behavior by Hippocampus |
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| Hippocampus inverted lobtailing right off the bow! |
Much like the morning, we capped off the day with several great looks at humpback whale, Venom. What an exciting day offshore!
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| Venom diving |
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