Saturday 12 January 2013

pilot reports 40 pilot whale in the area!

Todaythe pilot of the helicopter used the radio to report that there were 40 pilot whale travelling through the area, they were closely followed by a pod of bottlenosed dolphins! unfortunately they were too far offshore for our dolphin boats to see them. However our boats did manage to spot a sun fish, something we don't encounter every day.
here are some pictures of the juvinile humpback whale that joined us at the start of the season, he's ventured off now on his migration of 16,000km from cold waters where they feed in the spring to tropical water winter breeding grounds like Tonga. He looked at me as i took the pictures, hopefully you can make out his eye in the first picture. (pics taken on a small pocket camera so thery're nothing special but they'll do) x








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