Spinner Dolphin
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Face to Face with a Blue Whale – 23/6/24
We were hanging out on the boat eating ceviche enjoying some of the bottom Spinner Dolphins playing in the bay when we heard an extremely loud and powerful blow coming from right next to the boat. Everyone’s eyes turned and lit up to the massive blue whale which was at the time 20 meters away.…
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Blue Whale Song – 20/5/21
Blue Whale Song in the beautiful waters of the Perth Canyon as Blue Whales feasted and Humpback Whales exploded to life with surface activity as they also socialised with Spinner Dolphins! A beautiful Autumn morning escorted us past Rottnest Island as the surf competition that is being held could be sighted tucked in along the…
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My First Dolphin Encounter! – 3/19
We’d only been living on the island of Oahu, Hawai’i a couple months when my husband’s coworker offered to take us out to the beautiful western waters on his boat. I’d grown up living for summers on California lakes, exploring the waters on my parents’ boat. After living in Colorado the past few years, I…
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Over a Hundred Spinner Dolphins! – 20/3/17
The waters surrounding Maui, and Maui Nui, are known for the presence of humpbacks during the winter months. However, the Hawaiian spinner dolphins are also quite a sight to see. In Hawaiian, nai`a means dolphins, and these beautiful animals can bee seen off quite often around Maui and off the coast of Lānaʻi . I…
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Spinner’s and Spotted’s and Humpbacks, Oh My! – 4/12/15
We were lucky enough to go whale watching off the coast of Lahaina in Maui. The first time we went out we spotted two humpback blows and a tail fluke far off in the distance but not much else so we were able to come back another day were very hopeful that we would be…