[CINC] Thursday, May 10 on the CX

[mardanne at silcom.com]

What a great day to see whales!
21 Humpbacks
3 Blues
100 Common Dolphins
and MORE!

Although the day was mostly cold and foggy, we all forgot the weather as we found two groups of lunge feeding Humpbacks.  The first group consisted of three animals, with groups of two and three other Humpies merging and veering off.  The krill was in huge patches right on the surface.  The second group consisted of 12-15 whales in the area, for photo ID, I concentrated on the 5-6 that were closest to the boat.  There were more blows and lunges in the distance, more whales than I’ve ever seen!

After a visit to Painted Cave, Mat found a blue whales with two others in the area.  As we cruised thru the shipping lanes to return to SB, we sighted another Blue.  

Near shore, we also located a group of about 100 Common Dolphins.  

Great day on the channel!

Marilyn Dannehower


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.rain.org/pipermail/channel_islands_naturalist_corps/attachments/20120511/0ac1c263/attachment.html>