Topic: Whales

1-12. 26°S-Nose Brazil

Apr 25, 2005 – 1430hrs UTC

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Long list of acknowledgements – Thanks to everyone who mailed us over the last few days – Ian & Maggie, Olivia, Tricia, Johnny B ((thanks for the morale booster – coming from you, dems fightin’ woids), ArletteClearly worth going all the way … Continue reading

1-15. Falmouth, Malta, and environs

May 31, 2005 – 0615hrs UTC

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whales.. at least three of them although i only saw one – the other two sounded from just below the surface and left two huge flat swirls on the surface so big that they flattened the waves. the one i saw … Continue reading

1-15. Falmouth, Malta, and environs

31 May 31, 2005 – 1215hrs UTC

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one of those special days – just been thro’ v. big pod/school of what looked like small humpbacks – about 15 ft long, maybe more, dark olive brown, big triangular dorsal just ahead of hmpNASA’s Houghton Mars Project camp on Devon … Continue reading

2-5. Nome-Tuktoyaktuk (Canada)

McQ: Yesterday's whale... aaargh!!!

So I think I have sufficiently recovered from yesterday’s traumatic events to tell you all about it… We were taking it in turns driving for two hours at a time- a bit of a relentless experience, to say the least, in 40-45 knots of wind. Anyway I was on deck … Continue reading

2-6. Tuktoyaktuk-Cambridge Bay

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I’ve seen lots of whales since Tuk. A whale sounding is the most gracefully smoothly fluid movement – beats a cellist’s hand on the bow in an Elgar slow movement – first you see a glimpse of the head and the spout, then the back seems to uncoil through the … Continue reading

2-7. Cambridge Bay-Baffin Bay

7235 09606 Belugas, seals, porridge and a porpophin

Breakfast entertainment in Peel Sound. There were about 6 belugasThese small whales are superficially more like oversize, white, friendly dolphins. around the boat one came right alongside and lots of seals – brown heads, greyish mottled bodies, quite small. The porpophin was small, grey green brown – hard to tell … Continue reading

2-7. Cambridge Bay-Baffin Bay

K: Belugas in the snow...

You've heard of gorillas in the mist, but today we've had belugasThese small whales are superficially more like oversize, white, friendly dolphins. and snow! I've never seen a beluga whale before, but I have to say it was love at first sight. To me, these small whales are superficially more … Continue reading