Porpoises, dolphins and a fin & humpback whale! 2009/06/30
Summer has arrived with large schools of mackerels and beautiful weather. During the last 2 days we have seen a lot of harbour porpoises (more than 10 on one trip) and yesterday (29/06/09) we saw 3 Atlantic white sided dolphins and one large whale, a humpback whale. Humpback whales are very rare in the Vestfjord but have been spotted this year already two times!
We have daily trips now and hope to find many dolphins and whales. We also found that our grey seal male “Nils” has found 6 ladies to join him on a little island, we hope for many babies in fall!
On our first trip on the 30/06 we saw the second largest whale in the world: a fin whale! It looked like a young animal. we could take nice pictures for photo-identification and took sound recordings, but the whale was silent. Large whales like humpback and fin whales are extremely rare inside the Vestfjord. Whether it is food supply or a mistake in navigation that brings them inside the fjord is not known. They are more usual on the outside along the continental shelf.
Here are some pictures:
