Sightings & Updates
Minke whales and fog
Good evening everyone, the past 2 days we have spent time on our afternoon and evening trips with minke whales, we had to cancel our morning departures due to thick Fundy Fog! There have been lots of bald eagles around the Islands. The gull chicks on Whitehorse are...
The disentanglement of a young minke whale – July 20, 2015
Hello everyone, it's Danielle with Quoddy Link. Today's post is going to be a little bit different as we had quite the experience yesterday and I am going to do my best to share it with you all. So, here it goes..... It was a foggy day and when we are searching for...
July 9th – 18th
After a slow start to the season, bird activity in the West Isles area of the Bay of Fundy is starting to pick up. In recent days there have been groups of several hundred gulls feeding in the typical areas of tidal upwelling around Deer and Campobello and the Head...
A beautiful July day! – July 17, 2015
Good evening everyone, Danielle with Quoddy Link Marine here with sightings update from today. We saw minke whales on both departures today and we got some great views on each trip. This morning we had 2 very special sightings.... One was the second largest fish in...
First fin whales of 2015!
Good evening everyone, I have some great news, thanks to the keen eyes of Captain Mat we found our first finback whales of the season this morning!! There were 2 large whales, not together and they were both doing some long dives but no one was complaining. We tried...
Multiple minkes and our first basking shark sighting of the season – July 13, 2015
Hello all, the minke whale sightings have become more consistent the past few days. We have done a few searches of the offshore areas on good weather days but no signs of finbacks yet. I keep in touch daily with our friends on Grand Manan at Whales n Sails to know...
Welcome Back Slice – July 11, 2015
Hello everyone!! We had a wonderful surprise this morning...our first sighting of Slice for the 2015 season! We had a lovely day on the water all around with 3 minke whales in the morning and 2 minkes in the afternoon. We also had lots of harbour porpoise and seals...
Beautiful minke whales – July 10, 2015
Good evening everyone, we had 2 wonderful trips today with one minke whale in the morning and 2 minkes in the afternoon. I wanted to share some photos from our morning trip as we got some amazing looks at the special surface behaviour of the minke. A minke will...
The first 3 weeks of our 2015 season
Good evening everyone, this is Danielle back with Quoddy Link Marine for a 14th season on the Bay of Fundy! Welcome to our NEW website and our NEW blog! I hope you enjoy and comments and questions are always welcome. Well, this season has started off a little slow...
June 24th – July 8th
It is a great time of year to experience the bird life of the Bay of Fundy! Nesting and the raising of young is in full swing for most of our resident species which means plenty of interesting sights and some great opportunities for photography. Whitehorse Island is a...
