Captain Jack (Kimball) took me out on a boat Sunday (with my wife and his girlfriend), and we went looking for sea mammals. We’ve been out a few times and whale-watching once. We saw whales then, but the video was not much to see. This time, we did better.
We saw a lot of seals and half a dozen whales (Humpback and Minke) and had an overall great day, but because of the rock and sway of the boat, some of the videos I shot rank somewhere between the Zapruder Film and classic 70s “video” of bigfoot.
Given that it was water, perhaps the monster of Loch Ness would be a more apt description, but since I took a lot of videos, the odds landed in my favor, and a few of them were decent enough to share.
This is by far the best video, front to back, of one of our encounters with whales, of which there were many. We saw at least five or six different Humpbacks (I believe that’s what they were) and one Minke, all in the same vicinity, about 7 to 8 miles past the Isle of Shoals.
Here’s that above-average look from my reams of “footage.” You get a bit of whale tail at the end if you watch it all.
Earlier in the day, we sidled up to Boon Island in search of seals. At least 30 bobbing in the water near us, just checking out the boat. I shot several more videos, but most of them look similar. We’re looking at the seals, and the seals are looking at us, and plenty of me trying to get shots as they came near the boat (only for them to go underwater before I got the camera pointed that way).
That’s what all the side-to-side movement is. The up and down is the boat or me trying to compensate.
A beautiful day to be out on the water.
I lost my hat once while we were zooming out to see the seals, but we fetched it. It needed a bath. We also moored at Isle of Shoals after the whales to hang out and enjoy the afternoon.
And the Featured Image is NOT mine. It comes to us care of the Seacoast Science Center, which specializes in Marine Mammal rescue.