We ended up seeing over 30 different whales, which generally were traveling in pods of 2 or 3. 
At one point our boat was surrounded by whales on every side - of course, they stayed relatively distant from us. There were some really close encounters with the whales, including: 1. A Humpback doing a pirouette-turny-thing out of the water, showing off its tummy and waving a fin at us right off the bow, like 10 feet away, and 2. one of the Fin Backs swimming right toward our starboard side and then about 20 feet away from our hull, turned toward our stern and swimming away. The whales we saw were Humpback and Fin Back whales. Note: The Fin Back whale is the second largest animal on the planet, next to the Blue Whale. PHENOMENAL! I took entirely too many pictures of seemingly the same thing. I'll post them all in an album shortly, but for now just a couple of my faves :)
At one point our boat was surrounded by whales on every side - of course, they stayed relatively distant from us. There were some really close encounters with the whales, including: 1. A Humpback doing a pirouette-turny-thing out of the water, showing off its tummy and waving a fin at us right off the bow, like 10 feet away, and 2. one of the Fin Backs swimming right toward our starboard side and then about 20 feet away from our hull, turned toward our stern and swimming away. The whales we saw were Humpback and Fin Back whales. Note: The Fin Back whale is the second largest animal on the planet, next to the Blue Whale. PHENOMENAL! I took entirely too many pictures of seemingly the same thing. I'll post them all in an album shortly, but for now just a couple of my faves :)
This has been such a great vacation (more on that after the trip is over)!
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Very cool!!! Ican't wait to see the rest of them!
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