14 February 2006

a pair of right whales


Today I saw the coolest thing: a right whale and her calf swimming a few hundred yards off shore. I have never seen whales in their natural habitat, and even though they were far away and these aren't the best pictures, it was simply awesome!


They were swimming south - I took these on Ormond Beach right around SR-40. There was a man there that had been following them since about 9:00 this morning. He said that this is part of their territory, and they may go as far south as New Smyrna Beach.


I took alot of videos, but the fluke wasn't visible in any of them.

This was truly one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Not a bad Valentine's Day!!!

6 Comments:

At 16/2/06 1:40 PM, Blogger unHuman said...

awesome. This is just amazing to see such animals for real.

 
At 23/9/06 6:56 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It looks like that picture of the loch ness monster

-Dwight

 
At 23/9/06 9:12 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is so cool!!!!

-Erin

 
At 23/9/06 9:13 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Awesome!

-Mom

 
At 23/9/06 9:13 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

it must have been so exciting to see the whales. I wish I had seen them.

-Ellie

 
At 23/9/06 9:14 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cool pics of the whales.....love, MTB

 

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