Date : Thursday September 13, 2007 Location : Baie Saint Catherine, Ponte Noir, Sagueney fjord, Quebec, Canada Position : 48 07'24"N 069 42'59"W Species : Beluga(Delphinapterus leucas) Total number seen : 30-50
Remarks In the afternoon around 16.00 hours several beluga females enter the fjord with their grey calfs.
Date : Wednesday September 12, 2007 Location : Les Escoumins, Quebec, Canada Position : 48-19'-15"N 069-24'-48"W Species : Minke whale(Balaenoptera acutorostrata) Total number seen : 2
Remarks From a lookout point in Escoumins and later in the harbor of EScoumins, we saw two Minke Whales feeding.
Date : Monday September 10, 2007 Location : Saint Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada Position : 48-09'-01"N 069-33'-38"W Species : Fin whale(Balaenoptera physalus) Total number seen : 7
Remarks From Saint Simeon we took a boat and sailed on the St. Lawrence River on the lookout for the big whales. The weather was beautiful and the surface of the River was flat. Just north of Tadoussac we spotted a group of Fin Whales. They where in a group of at least 7 individuals, gently cruising in the whale sanctuary.
Date : Monday September 10, 2007 Location : Baie Saint Catherine, Ponte Noir, Sagueney fjord, Quebec, Canada Position : 48-07'-24"N 069-42'-59"W Species : Minke whale(Balaenoptera acutorostrata) Total number seen : 2
Remarks At the same time we've observed the beluga's there were also 2 minke whales feeding in the fjord. One time the minke surfaced with it's pink belly upwards..
Date : Monday September 10, 2007 Location : Baie Saint Catherine, Ponte Noir, Sagueney fjord, Quebec, Canada Position : 48 07'24"N 069 42'59"W Species : Beluga(Delphinapterus leucas) Total number seen : 30-50
Remarks In the early morning we took the ferry to Baie Saint Catherine and went to the lookout Ponte Noir. Yesteray evening we saw beluga's coming out of the fjord, but they where on the other side of the fjord. When the came in the Saint Lawrence River, they swim downstream, so we didn't get a change to see them properly. But this morning from Ponte Noir we had a wonderful view of single beluga's swimming in to the fjord and sometimes they swim in small groups of 3 or 4 individuals.
Date : Sunday September 9, 2007 Location : Tadoussac, Sagueney fjord, Quebec, Canada Position : Species : Minke whale(Balaenoptera acutorostrata) Total number seen : 3
Remarks At 16.40 hours we saw a Minke Whale coming out of the fjord, swimming into the Saint Lawrence River, going with the outgoing tide. We observed the whale from the outlook point at Tadoussac. This point looking over the mouth of the Sagueney Fjord.
From 17.30 htours until 19.00 hours there where 2 Minke Whales feeding in the mouth of the fjord.
Date : Sunday September 9, 2007 Location : Sagueney fjord, Baie Sainte Marguerite, Quebec, Canada Position : 48-15N 69-56 W Species : Minke whale(Balaenoptera acutorostrata) Total number seen : 1
Remarks In the morning we travelled to Baie Sainte Marguerite and hoped to see beluga's. After a few hours a minke whale passed by.
Date : Saturday September 8, 2007 Location : Cape Bon Desir, Les Bergeronnes, Quebec, Canada Position : Species : Minke whale(Balaenoptera acutorostrata) Total number seen : 2
Remarks We sat down on the rocks of Cape Bon Desir when around 15.00 hours a Minke Whale swam by. This was our first time we saw a Minke Whale.
