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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
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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
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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. |
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Pictured Above
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Pinball raising her
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flukes after having a
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very close encounter
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with the Granite State
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Whale Watch.
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10/5/07
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