The weather today improved throughout the tour, but the strong northern wind was making significant waves.

We sailed out to just south of the green buoy where in the distance we could see several large splashes. They were very distinct from the many wave splashes we could see. It was a Humpback Whale breaching. At the time of the breaches the whale was being passed very closely by a container ship, most likely the reason for the jumping. We got closer to the whale and watched the travelling behaviour as the whale moved up the East side and then across to the West. Despite the traveling behaviour and short inter-breath intervals we were seeing regular flukes. The whale then interestingly spent quite a bit of time in the extreme shallows to the West of the green buoy, less than 10 meters deep.

Text & Pictures: Mac

Departure: 1300 O’Clock Classic