Feeding
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New Season Ahead – 27/10/24
Welcome everybody to the 2024 / 2025 winter whale watching season in Northern Norway. This year is notable since the herring and whales arrived in the fjords quite early. There have been whale sightings since early October… Today was our first day on the water. We took the boat for a test run before we…
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December with Ditto – 12/23
December truly has been a gift with 13 days (so far) of a gray whale known as Ditto, feeding within sight of our cabin! Ditto, or CSG349 is one of the few grey whales who feeds in this channel and has been seen in past years feeding in Chesterman and Cox Bay with her calf,…
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Feeding – 29/11/23
A feeding, a “bait ball,” is what most people come to Northern Norway to witness during the wintertime, a herring feast for orcas and humpback whales. It can be challenging to come by. Today, we got lucky, very lucky. In the morning, we found a few orcas at the beginning of herding a school of…
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Humpbacks from Shore – 10/12/23
Picture this: A Sunday morning, bright and early at 7:30 AM, and the sun is casting a gentle glow on the horizon. What’s unique about this December morning is that it’s a beautiful 55°F on the boardwalk, an uncommon sight for this time of year. As a result, the boardwalk is bustling with people taking…
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A Very Close Encounter with Two Humpbacks – 2/09
I’m not a whale biologist. My very first trip to Antarctica was on this big Russian vessel. That was when I was still working on post-digested krill. I was at my microscope in this little tiny lab sorting poop, which I’d been doing for several hours. I had a little tiny porthole window in my…