[CINC] Condor - 6/17/2012

[Vivi Teston]

OMG,, How Fabulous !!!! Lucky, Fortunate... WOW !!! thanx for sharing
beautiful day !

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Kevin Bailey <diver23 at cox.net> wrote:

> Today may have trumped all others!  Not sure it gets any better than today!
> ****
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> There are soooo many whales in all directions it  was amazing even for the
> several very seasoned whale people and Capt. Beezer said it just does not
> get better than this! ****
>
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> Official count to turn in was *11 Blues and 17 Humpbacks* but those were
> just the ones near us – countless others in the distance.****
>
> PID was beyond challenging today – I got PID shots of 27 different whales*
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> Often times there were 4-5-6 whales that swam to us within 100 yards of
> the boat with others in all directions****
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> We saw a cow calf Blue pair****
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> We saw a cow / calf humpback pair and they were the highlight of the day –
> the *calf breached maybe 20 times* !! And close to the boat – Amazing
> doesn’t even come close to describing it!!****
>
> There were flukes by the dozens:****
>
> Often we saw *pairs and triples of humpback flukes in unison*****
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> Heard really *loud trumpeting* – maybe the loudness I have heard.****
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> Saw a crazy wild high tail throw with 25% of the body thrown in the air
> right in front of the boat!****
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> We saw *spy-hopping, and chin-slapping, tail lobbing, racing that lead to
> breaching.*
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> * *
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> We also saw 300 Commons and sea lions everywhere all day mixed in with the
> Humpbacks****
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> No wind, no swell, almost flat – sun tried to peak thru and did a few
> minutes at the cave ****
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> I am still in awe as I know fellow naturalists Toni Bailey and Bruce
> Matthews are too****
>
> ** **
>
> Kevin Bailey****
>
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