Minke Whale Lives Up To Its Nickname Stinky Minke! - Tuesday, August 19, 2008
"Our adventure started in Guemes Channel as we passed channel markers, as known as cormorant condos, with Pelagic Cormorants perched on their nests within the marker! We continued southward down Rosario Strait watching as the Harbor Porpoise gently rolling through the water! To our delight we found a few pairs of Marbled Murreletts diving into the watery depths fishing! Also at Colville Island we found a mature Bald Eagle perched atop the National Wildlife Refuge sign, just beneath a Great Blue Heron sat fishing atop some Bull Kelp floating at the surface and 20 + Harbor Seals were found hauled out on the rocks! We continued on to Salmon Bank where we found our first Minke Whale feeding on the shallow bank! After a few great looks the elusive whale vanished! We then headed towards Hein Bank in hopes to find a second Minke Whale and did just that! This one, larger than the first, proved to be quite friendly giving our guests multiple close looks! The close looks also allowed our guests to actually smell its stinky breath!! The Minke zigged and zagged circling around Hein Bank among Rhinoceros Auklets, Glaucous-winged Gulls, Heerman's Gulls and Harbor Seals that were all hoping to grab a bite to eat along side the whale!" - Naturalist Kate Janes
posted by Island Adventures Whale Report @ 9:34 AM
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