Sightings & Updates

Hello, it's Danielle, senior naturalist and photographer with Quoddy Link Marine. We finally had some nice weather with no fog and we able to get offshore and spend some time with Cork again. We now know from molecular genetic testing on a skin sample done by...

Hello, it's Danielle. With the help of Jooke Robbins at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies the humpback we have seen has been identified as "Cork", the 2002 calf of Mica. We saw Cork in 2004 and "he" was named at the 2006 whale naming conference I attended in...

We had a very nice day today out on the Bay of Fundy. NO FOG!! On our morning trip we ended up seeing a basking shark, the second largest fish in the world! A nice surprise. We also took a trip over to Whale Cove, Grand Manan to see a minke whale. On our afternoon and...

A day of fog and strong southwest winds confined us to the islands but we did see 2 new minke whales.This is Breadknife, a minke whale we have been watching for many years now. We spotted "him" off Windmill Point, Campobello Island.Another minke whale we have seen in...

We had our first humpback whale sighting today about 16 nm from St. Andrews! Typically we don't see humpbacks regularly in our area until mid-August but last year they showed up in early July and stayed. We will have to keep our fingers crossed. The humpback we saw...

We have been seeing finback whales almost almost everyday now. I have photographed 2 individual whales. Finbacks are identified by the shape of their dorsal fin as well as the colourations and permanent scars and marks on their back and caudal peduncle.Here you can...

Hello there, it's Danielle, senior naturalist and photographer with Quoddy Link Marine. We had our first finback whale sighting today, something we are all very excited about. I wasn't able to get any pictures because I was in the office today. I will post pictures as...

Hello there, it's Danielle, photographer and senior naturalist with Quoddy Link. We officially started our whale watching season on Saturday, June 24th and were greeted with some very thick fog, and it hasn't left yet. This isn't stopping us from going out and looking...

Hi, it's Danielle again, senior naturalist with Quoddy Link Marine. I just wanted to let you know we saw our FIRST WHALE on June 19th. It was a minke whale sighted off East Quoddy Head Light, on the northern tip of Campobello Island. Minke whales are usually the first...

On May 24th we had the privledge to visit Machias Seal Island with a group of 20 students from The Huntsman Marine Science Center. Basically a rock with a lighthouse surrounded by shoals, Machias Seal Island is located 10 miles SW of Grand Manan in the mouth of the...