Before long, we saw another spout, this time a humpback, as it came up for air.
Once heavily hunted, humpback whales that feed on krill have made a comeback in Antarctic waters.
After the initial thrill of seeing the humpback breach, things became seriously eye-popping.
Eagles soar overhead and humpback whales put in an appearance in summer, joining orcas, dolphins and seabirds.
The silent boats allow kayakers to paddle into kelp beds to watch humpback whales feed and seals frolic.
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Here, humpback whales frolic for much of the winter months and four species of dolphin can be seen year-round.
Between June and November, humpback whales congregate in Tonga to mate and breed.
The humpback chub, for example, thrived in the rust-red waters of the Colorado.
And, on the beach itself, Gotfod points out canine footprints circling the putrefying carcass of a humpback whale, covered in ghost crabs.
There was a collective gasp of awe and astonishment from everyone on deck as the humpback whale breached about 200 yards away.
Two companies in town offers tours in search of these peaceful creatures, spying minke whales, humpback whales and sometimes blue whales.
The image was inspired by a humpback whale butchered in 1883 at the Tay, which served as a main whaling port.
An average-sized humpback whale eats 2, 000-2, 500 kg of plankton, krill and small, schooling fish but don't worry, no kayakers per day.
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We heard the expelling of air through a blowhole and tracked down a humpback, watching as her dorsal fin arched out of the water.
Play structures come in many forms even that of a 46-foot humpback whale.
While fin and humpback whales have seen gains in population since the 1990s, the number of blues has declined or remained flat.
Humpback whale breeding grounds once could be found in any ocean.
While other species such as Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins and Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins are not currently threatened, their future can by no means be taken for granted.
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Attracted by plankton, krill and large shoals of herring, minke, fin, humpback, and the occasional killer whale habitually pass through the briny coastal waters between Donegal and Cork City.
These are cool tropical islands where humpback whales calve in the winter, and where, in some places, one can feel like the only visitor that ever ventured this far.
"Although the elephants and the humpback whales and polar bears are the animal stars, the other big star of the movie is the earth -- the planet itself, " said Fothergill.
Populations of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were seriously depleted by commercial whaling but have been protected in most areas for the last 50 years, and most populations are growing.
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The peninsula is a haven for wildlife: humpback whales in the crystal blue water, elephant seals beached on Pleneau Island, squawking adelie, chinstrap and gentoo penguins, and wheeling cormorants, petrels and terns.
Leaving popular Whitehaven Beach, paddle towards Peter Bay, 19km north on Whitsunday Island, where you may see a sea eagle gracefully plucking dinner from the ocean and perhaps a humpback whale breaching the surface.
With other Explorers Club members, Bennett has traveled to Hawaii to study humpback whales, to Madagascar to catalog the island's flora and fauna, to Mount Kilimanjaro for a bit of bioprospecting, and to Easter Island for an archeology project.
Look, I know there are going to be a few defensive headphone-wearers out there who claim that they never crank the volume, and only listen to soft Ray LaMontagne or humpback whales, and can hear the traffic all around them.
The Navy disputes his assessment, saying this year's humpback whale season was normal, and more whales than ever before were seen in March 1998, when biologists studied humpbacks' response to the Navy's Low-Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) equipment in Hawaiian waters.
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