Good Afternoon Knights of the Tide Table,
Yesterday we reunited with Captain Adam for a stroll through the Southwest Corner. With the recently christened deck of the Sanctuary under our feet, we started our 10am voyage with an engaging encounter of an association of two logging humpback whales. We recognized the most intricate patterns of scarring on Eraser's dorsal fin, for the gregarious giant awoke and encroached within a body length of our ark! The sea beast began casting its pectoral flippers jovially into the air and cracked the sea surface, spraying onlookers atop the port pulpit! With Eraser was a second humpback suspected to be Pixar, whose tagging scar marks scientists' previous efforts to better understand travel patterns in the Gulf of Maine and beyond. Eraser's accomplice swam under our craft and began mighty flipper slapping of its own merit!
Despite the duo being quite comfortable with the Sanctuary, Adam set a course for an association of Pele, Milkweed, and Cajun with her 2015 Calf. In the distance clamored a breaching humpback whale with aerial explorations of unknown intent. As we tried for some looks of these charismatic megafauna, a harbor seal swam toward our bow with great haste! The pinniped cast an inquiring eye upon our starboard pulpit in possible befuddlement of our clumsy tail-stems and baleen atop our heads. We soon turned west for the stillness of land, but not before one of the humpbacks roared out of the sea for a breach between the Sanctuary and the approaching Privateer IX!
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| Harpor seal gives the "whale eye" despite approaching on its own terms. Rich Dolan, BHC naturalist |
The Santuary brought us again to the Southwest Corner for the 3pm exploration, and we soon peered at Gladiator the humpback whale between dives of nearly 7 minutes. The cetacean submarine lay dormant under the sea whilst Captain Adam opted for a distant association, but once we were out of range this denizen of the deep took flight with two breaches! We observed the platoon of Pele, Gladiator, Cajun, and Cajun 2015 Calf as they travelled in a random fashion, accompanied by Convict. After several moments of close encounters and flowering flukes we made for Boston, but one leviathan marked our departure with a breach fully appreciated by our passengers!
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| Convict's fluke. Rich Dolan, BHC naturalist |
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| Double rainblows! Rich Dolan, BHC naturalist |
Thank you for your audience through the season so far, and I will aspire to do justice in cataloguing mysticete magnificence!
Peace and Love,
Rich
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