Friday, December 5, 2008

Whale and Dolphin sightings.

This morning David came to get the spotting scope to get a better view of the whales he had seen earlier. I hurriedly went with him and we searched the horizon, we couldn't find the whales again but did find something else........A pod of dolphins just meandering up and down in the water. We watched them for about an hour. They are spectacular to watch, some even jumped out of the water and gave us a really good look. They may have been bottlenose dolphins although it was hard to get a clear view of their noses. It didn't look like they had a very long beak in fact it looked like they were more round nosed with some whitish on their faces. The were traveling very slowly and breaching alot in groups of 10 to 15 and sometimes they would slap their faces on the water sideways.
I just love days like this when we can watch the surrounding animals at leasure.

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