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Welcome to the Re-designed WhaleSightings.Com!
About a month or so before the start of the 2009 whale watch season I got the urge to redesign it again. I tend to get bored pretty easilty with this type of stuff and I wanted to learn something new. It took a lot longer than I thought it would which is why I hadn't updated my site until now.

The main change you see besides the layout change is in the Photo Albums. They now run using a JavaScript based program called Lightbox. If you have JavaScript enabled when you click on a thumbnail (a small photo), a big box should show up over the page you're currently. In that box the photo should load and you should be able to scroll through them using the arrow key on your keyboard or by using your mouse to click on the right or left of the photo. To close the box, just click the close tab at the bottom or type X or C on your keyboard.
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6/24/09 : Whale Sightings Update

I have been on 4 trips so far this season. On my first trip back on 5/23/09 we found a young Humpback named Komodo. If you visited my website at all last season, this name should sound familiar to you as we saw it quite a bit. This year he (or she) was lunge feeding at the surface. This was a great way to start the season. The next weekend we found a mother and calf pair of Humpbacks. The mother never raised her flukes so we still don't know who she was. She was also staying well below the surface most likely feeding while we watched her calf put on quite the show. The calf seemed to be having fun rolling at the surface, flipper slapping, and tail breaching. At one point it even played around with some seaweed. This "little" whale seemed to carefree and full of life. It was a treat being able to watch it. We also found a couple of Fin Whales later on in the trip. One of them swam in towards the boat, rolled on it's side, and then dove right next to us. If you were wearing polarized sunglassed you could see the entire whale's body. It was absolutely amazing! Along with these impressive sightings we also had half a dozen Basking Shark sightings which is pretty unusual.I suppose this just goes to show how much food was available for them. My last trip on 6/14/09 wasn't one that'll go down as one of the best. We had some great Fin and Minke Whale sightings, but it was also raining so I didn't take my camera out that much at all. I'm hoping I'll have better weather on my next trip.  The photos are all posted in the Photo Album and the Trip Details are also up.