Thursday, September 08, 2005

Humpback Whale

Date : Thursday September 8th 2005
Location : Esperanza Inlet, Vancouver Island Canada
Position : 49-51N 126-55W
Species : Humpback whale
Total number seen : 2
Video: Humpback Whale breaching(1.48Mb length 0:05)

Remarks
On our way near Centre Island in the Esperanza Inlet we saw 2 humpback whales: a mother with her calf.
They where slapping with their pectoral fins and the baby breaches more then ten times. Also mom breached one time. This was truly amazing.


Pectorial fin Humpback whale

Breaching humpback Humpback breaching

humpback whale humpback whale

On our way back we ran into the humpbacks again.
We thought they where a little disturbed, according to the tail slaps they’ve made. We left the whales alone and went back to Zeballos.
We’ve had a wonderful afternoon.

Humpback tailslap

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