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The End of the Season – 31/1/24
Today, we finished our 2023/2024 whale-watching season here in northern Norway. It has been a fantastic season with many unexpected visitors Last week, one of them was a solitary walrus that visited the inner part of Skjervøy harbor for a snooze. I intentionally did not post the photos then so it does not draw extra…
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April Orca Tours – 4/4/21
April Orca Tours are currently departing from Bremer Bay as we celebrate Easter this weekend and enjoy time with family and friends including of course our Orca family! A slight winter feel moved through today as a cooler breeze and showers of rain escorted us out to the sighting grounds and soon after arriving in…
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Humpback vs Orcas – 9/9/20
A pod of 9 or 10 orcas can’t take down a healthy adult humpie but that doesn’t mean they wont try. You can see the humpie at the back, turned on its side. Humpbacks are fight not flight animals and so it’s slapping its pectoral fin as a warning to keep the orcas away. ????♂️…
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Incredible Encounter in Monterey! – 22/7/03
Here we go again! Am I a glutton for punishment? Or am I just an acute ‘Whale Nut?!’ I headed down to the Whale Watch on the Wharf, to get on board the Sea Wolf II again for today’s next installment of marine wonder! It was foggy again so I wondered if we would be…
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Lunge Feeding and Tail Flukes – 26/6/19
On our first trip of the day we found whales west of Muir Beach in the same spot we’d seen them for the past few weeks. There were five humpbacks feeding in 82 feet of water. One of them was close to us and the other four were farther to the northwest. We observed some…