SIGHTINGS UPDATE
Tuesday September 8, 2020
10am: This morning was foggy but we spent most of our trip offshore with Chevron, a humpback, who was quite active and breached for over 30 minutes. Humpbacks breach, and they do breach a lot but it’s so special to see surface active behaviour on a whale watch, we see it less than 10% of the time. Whales are NOT breaching for us, Chevron would be breaching if there was a boat there or not, it’s a natural behaviour and we don’t know for sure why they breach…maybe knocking external parasites off, maybe surface communication, maybe fun….and it’s OK that we don’t know! We made a quick stop with seals as well before we made our way back to St. Andrews.
2pm: This afternoon the fog persisted and we stayed inshore with minkes off Campobello, LOTS of porpoise and 5 eagles around Spruce Island.
Chevron was quite active – image by Rika
Chevron breaching – image by Rika
Chevron, a humpback, breaching – image by Rika
checking out Head Harbour Light from the lower deck of the Quoddy Link – image by Rika
minke whale and a bald eagle (on the reef) – image by Tracey
Thank You to Rika and Claire for the updates!
Cheers,
Danielle
Quoddy Link Marine
Whale Watching
St. Andrews
New Brunswick
Quoddy Link Marine
Whale Watching
St. Andrews
New Brunswick
