Aug 7 2014, out to the 11 mile ridge, 4 species of shearwater, 3 species of whale, mottled sunfish

Aug 7 offshore trip with the crew from Matinicus Rock.

Minke whale, north of Wooden ball

Same Minke whale

Razorbill and chick

Matinicus Rock

not quite adult gannet

Wilson's petrel,

Gamming greater shearwater,  none north of Seal Island all summer and out beyond there are plenty of them

quite tame some of them

the little Manx

greater

We saw a couple Leaches petrel fairly early and no more

Wilson's petrel were thick in places,
no picture but there were lots of harbor seals drifting along out there.

Wilson's Petrels

like I said thick in places

Then off in the distance east of the southern end of the ridge there they were

they were a ways off we would have missed them but for the breaching, 3 humpbaccks we follwed them for an hour or so,  5 minutes up and 5 minutes down, they were just lobbing along @2 knots when on the surface.

hang on this one looks familiar

there it is, (from the archives on Aug 6 2013) we saw the same whale in the same place
must go back next year.

Still there were shearwaters around when the whales were down

just like Maui county

they stayed close together mostly

Flukes

We left them alone after an hour or so, we had miles to go, not sure if this one was waving goodbye or trying to frighten us off.

Cory's shearwater

Cory's,  we never used to see these up here.

big slow winged,  less stiff winged than the greater, more shearwaters are always nice

we saw three fin whales on the way in,  saw their spouts first, lost them quickly distracted by

this mottled sunfish,  new species I suspect

even the fin was mottled

another wilsons petrel

Sooty with the Greater

Matoinicus Rock from the south, and head of thunder

It was a fine day, we saw some other stuff as well,  a couple of Jaegar and seals loads of seals drifting around out there. that was a surprise.