Beluga
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An Encounter to Remember – 6/7/24
We had turn off the main engine and were drifting in the ice. The water was extremely clear and almost gave us this blue/sapphire colours. All of a sudden I heard a familiar sound of a whales coming up to breath. Couldn’t see them at first but then they came up just next to the @ms.origo.…
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Seeing Arctic Whales in Greenland – 3/4/19
I chartered a guide with boat and gone out Baffin Bay to the sea ice. Incredible. Another day we spotted Belugas. And on my last day I watched Narwhals by coast and on the Helicopter back to Ilulissat. Can you See the head of Bowhead? Looking out the sea. One of my special aerial shots.…
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My First Cetacean Encounter – 15/7/08
This was the first time I saw a wild cetacean! It happened in the summer of 2008, in SW Spitsbergen, when I was a PhD candidate involved in a tundra study. My colleague and I were busy with fieldwork on a coastal plain, when suddenly he pointed to the sea, and said anxiously “Look, polar…
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A New Calf in Mosquito Creek – 2017
We were in Churchill in 2017 and we headed up the river in our small research zodiac. We went to Mosquito Creek and man the mosquitos are insane! You can lean on them, they formed a wall around the boat haha Mosquito Creek is an area where according to local knowledge the whales give birth.…
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A Wonderful Day in Les Escoumins – 1/7/17
Today we went to the Cap de Bon Désir where we had the chance and privileged to see Minke Whale (petit rorqual), Beluga Whale, little pinguins and eider duck! Feeling so lucky! And they were so much more beautiful in their habitat, free and majestic. It was to be exact in Les Escoumins, at the…