Monday, 11 August 2008

Tour at 17:00

It is little bit windy but sunny and great visibility. We very soon spotted a Minky whale, later three of them, but they were still far, maybe 150 metres and fast traveling. Then we were lucky and one approached our boat so close, that we could almost touch it. And also one calf was near. There were so many Gannets today, its such a nice sighting to see them feeding. These birds just drop into water so fast to catch the fish. At the end of our tour we saw a blow of a Humpback whale, we came closer but it was gone. It decided not to join us:( But there was a good atmosphere in the air with the warm sun on our backs. We all enjoyed the tour.

 

Tour at 13:00

Another very successful tour: a very sunny day with flat sea conditions. Our first sighting was with a group of 5 white-beaked dolphins, which surfaced very close to our boat, then we headed further and we had two main stops in which we observed a lot of minke whales. Especially during our last stop we had three to four young minke whales, which were surfacing alsways less than 50 meteres, showing the pointed beak and it was aslo possible to see the white-patch on their pectoral fins underwater

 

Tour at 9:00

A very nice weather this morning:  sea calm and flat and very good visibility. Whales were everywhere today as well: a lot of white-beaked dolphins have been spotted, were a lot of small groups of 4-6 dolphins, very nice to observe. We also observed minke whales, and we had a couple of feeding minke whales, rolling under the water and showing the fluke at the surface, it was really great!