Here are some snaps and three videos of our whale-watching trip on September 5 in Monterey Bay. I’ve written about it before, and showed a few videos, so here are a few ancillary snaps and a video showing the (short-beaked) dolphins porpoising by our boat as well as several big humpbacks surfacing while feeding. I still find the carpet of sea lions and birds that appears just before the whales one of the most amazing sights I’ve seen in nature. I also put up some better whale photos taken by Bruce Lyon (see here).
The whales are after a big school of anchovies.
The amazing sea lion carpet. You can see the shore in the background; we weren’t far away:
This is almost solid sea lions!
Specimens of whale baleen, through which they strain the water out of the fish soup:
Whales ahoy!
The sea lion carpet, followed by The Rising:
Dolphins playing by our boat:
if Dolphins “porpoise” do porpoises “dolphin”?
Just a thought…
Certainly not on porpoise.
Great stuff! Wish I was there.
What a wonderful trip and an amazing sight!
I keep thinking that the seals will be swallowed by the whales.