[CINC] Condor today, and yesterday!

[Scott Cuzzo]

Yesterday on the Condor we saw about 5 blues and 5 humpbacks.  Great viewing of all, some close approaches by the humps, and some of the blues even came fairly close.  About 500 commons were seen in one group too.

And a kid threw up on my shoe.

Today on the Condor the blues from the day before were NOT to be found where they were yesterday.  We did not find any blues today.  But we did find a LOT of humpbacks.  Two were lunge feeding over and over quite close to the boat.  Probably the best lunge feeding I have seen in the Channel.  I heard that IPCO found blues much further east than we were.  They must have moved a lot over night.

BONUS:  We saw four kinds of dolphin.  Commons, Risso's, Pacific White Sided and...wait for it...northern right whale dolphins.  The commons were in a separate group.  The other three were in one big group.  This was my first sighting of the northern right whale dolphins...that I know of.  Though I now will look harder when I think I might think I'm looking at a sea lion.

Captain Dave said he usually sees them with other dolphins, and my reading from today confirmed that they often are found with Risso's and Pacific White Siders...which was surely true today.

It was pretty calm today, but still a fair number of heavers.  Fortunately I escaped unscathed this time.

Oh, both days Jim Peckarsky was on board and played a 20 minute DVD on the way back home.  He narrates the DVD and is terrifically funny and smart.
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