Yesterday we had some exciting encounters with breachers and lob-tailing whales.
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| Taking flight (Darren Craig) |
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| Splash after a full breach (Darren Craig) |
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| Half-breach (Darren Craig) |
One male whale which we know from last year was lob-tailing only about 20m from the boat as we drifted passed in the wind.
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| Humpback bull lob-tailing in front of 'humpback hill' (Darren Craig) |
We managed to collect 3 biopsies with two 'lob' shots at distances of between 20 and 30m as the weather conditions were quite good.
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| Biopsy dart re-bounding with a sample (Darren Craig) |
We got fluke images for photo ID from each whale too. All 4 whales that we encountered were heading south which means we might need to search down south in the coming days in order to find them. We went for a quick dip over an offshore reef where there was plenty of life (including a small shark, parrot fish and tangs/surgeonfish) and the visibility was easily >20m.
Back at Natura it was our Bean on tí, Laura's, birthday so we had a bit of a shindig.
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