[CINC] Another epic day on the Condor Express

Kevin Bailey diver23 at cox.net
Sun Jul 17 21:51:38 PDT 2011


Over 100 people from everywhere today on the Condor 
we saw about 300 Commons soon after we left the harbor
On the way to Santa Rosa we saw about 10 Risso's
Once we got out the SRI there were spouts everywhere - maybe 20-25 whales in the area
We saw our friend Rope and her calf. Today mom was teaching breaching so that was cool. The calf had a great jump with a nice twist...she is learning well.
I got PID shots on 6 different Humpbacks including a double tail of Rope and calf and 7 Blues
There were other whales in the immediate area so the official count was close to 15 whales 
On the way into the harbor we also saw 4 Bottlenose close the the wharf mixed in with small boats and kayaks
Awesome day, sunny, water good until SRI but not too bad...didn't see sick people but I don't look for them

Thanks to Captains Mat and Dave with Matt

Kevin Bailey on PID
with Viv Teston and Cate Nelson


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