Remember last fall’s Hurricane Sandy? Well, 2 days before, we’re on a boat, the last whale watch of the season, and 80 minutes in I’m resigned that we won’t be seeing anything. Beautiful day, but we’ve just been traveling too far with nothing to show for it. 90 minutes in, they make an announcement. “We’ve spotted some spouts a few miles ahead, so we may be in luck!” And soon enough, they were right! Yeah! Here’s the description from the website”
“October 27th marked our last trip of the 2012 season. We traveled 18 miles offshore into very deep waters. In general, and particularly when our trips take us to the shallow Stellwagen Bank, we are rarely in more than 210 feet of water. Today, our depth sounder was telling us that we were in 600 feet! Here, we had spouts all around us. We counted between five and seven humpbacks, as well as six fin whales!”
and tonight, I get on a bus heading up north, and hope that on Saturday, on the first whale watch of the season, we have some good luck and I get some pics and video to share. Wish us luck!
…and click the pic to see the video!