Whales galore!

On Thursday afternoon, we set out south where a lot of Humpback whale action was taken place. And to our luck, we found them! There all around us! We decided to take a look at a whale closest to us. This whale was acting rather sleepy and was later identified as Tigris. After a few looks, a fellow crew member spotted some more active Humpbacks in the distance. We decided to let Tigris nap and enjoy his evening while we made our way to others.

We came across a Humpback Whale feeding! This whale sure did put on quite a show! This whale was creating large bubble nets that tramp in the fish before he would lunge out of the water, mouth open, to swallow up an entire ball of bait. The birds were going crazy as well. They would fly to the water where the bubbles were emerging to eat the fish that were bring brought to the surface by the whale. To our greatest luck, we even saw this whale breach completely out of the water!! This is such a beautiful "Discovery" sight that is very rarely seen. The photo below is a photo of the splash after the whale hit the water, largest belly flop I've seen!
While we were watching this whale show amazing feeding behaviors, we saw some MORE whales in the distance acting even MORE active! There were 2 Humpbacks in the distance that were breaching and tail lobbing, so again we decided to leave another Humpback to enjoy its evening meal, and we set off to check out some more active Humpbacks.

As we were steaming towards these 2 very active whales, they continuously kept jumping out of the water and creating all kinds of splashes! This trip was already a spectacular trip, what else could we experience?! One of the whales was identified as Flask, one of the crew members favorite Humpback. We were able to see this large male whale throw its entire lower body out of the water, time and again. He also showed us his large pectoral fins, that are approximately 1/3 the size of their body.

After all the excitement from the different amazing behaviors that were witnessed by our passengers, it was sadly time to head back to port. Not only did we get to see nature at it's finest, we were even able to see mother nature at her finest... a beautiful sunset on the trip home.

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