9 am trip - Tammy
W e got to spend time with five different humpback whales on this morning’s trip. Large splashes caught our eye as we reached Stellwagen Bank, which turned out to be a breaching humpback! We saw several types of active behaviors including breaching, lobtailing and flipper slapping.
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| spinning breach |
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| lobtailing |
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| unknown, active humpback whale |
We had quick looks at three other single humpbacks, one of which was named Startrail. These animals were traveling and diving.
A humpback whale named Gladiator gave us some amazing looks at the end of our trip. This whale started to feed and used bubble clouds to catch prey. Gladiator created a couple of bubble clouds right next to our boat, surfacing right off the bow through the green bubbles! It was great to see some breaching and feeding behavior this morning.
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| Gladiator's tail |
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| Gladiator surfacing through a bubble cloud |
2pm trip - Tammy
This afternoon we traveled east of Stellwagen Bank where we picked up a single humpback whale named Circuit. We had beautiful views of Circuit as she stayed on the surface for several breaths in between dives.
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| humpback whale Circuit diving |
We then made a trek down the backside of Cape Cod to an area full of activity. Several whales and hundreds of seabirds surrounded us. A pair of finback whales was lunge feeding just below the surface and we had great looks at the pair as they traveled beside our boat.
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| finback whale |
We ended our trip with views of a third finback whale and a pair of humpback whales. One whale in the pair of humpbacks is named Etch-a-Sketch. The two humpbacks passed right down the right side of our boat, both whales fluking out and showing their beautiful tails. It was a great ending to a great two-species trip.
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| humpback whale traveling |
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| Etch-a-sketch and friend |
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