[CINC] Condor Express Sun 5/20/2012

[Kevin Bailey]

Official Count is  10 Humpbacks + 7 Blues 

But it is still clearly “whale soup” out there – without the fog we probably
would have seen dozens of other spouts!

100 Commons

Lots of surface lunge feeding seen from both the humpbacks and blues

Lots of krill at the surface

A few tail flukes (just for the humpbacks)

The “747 Blue” that we have seen before is here but there were no tail shot
for the blues – I could see the “wingtips” of the tail as it skirted the
surface (it looked like 2 shark fins sticking up)

 

Visibility was ¼ (or less) up to maybe 3 miles and constantly changed with
the fog all day

The seas were calm yet ½ the boat seemed queasy and several never got off
the benches to even see whales – must have been the fog monster

We saw several more humpbacks here and there as were on the way home and but
did not have time to stop.

Sea Lions were seen all over too as were 12 +/- birds by 3 birders on board

 

Kevin Bailey

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