07:36:34′, ‘Morning’, ‘cloudy’, ‘15.0’, ”, ‘14.0’, ‘NE’, ‘1-2\\” swell’, ‘Ryan’, ’16:36:58′
Eco-Tour’, 10, ‘The big POW and FiveStar boats did more than their usual maneuvering off the jetty today. The create a lot of wash when moving like this.’, ‘Ryan’, ’16:38:14′
2 Humpbacks were observed to the E of the reserve, showing feeding behaviour for several hours within the same area. One’s dorsal fin was completely shredded by what I would assume was an orca attack.’, ‘Ryan’, ’16:39:14
Our most recent pictures are included in the post in the log:
Humpback whales in the ecological reserve:
See all the posts on Observations of Humpback Whales at Race Rocks
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| Raisa has several pictures on her Flickr site of humpbacks that came by in 2010. See also this page | On Thursday Oct 5, 2006 Kohei, (PC year 33) took these two pictures at the mouth of Pedder Bay .. | ..while on the trip back from Diving at Race Rocks.William Head is in the background. | A picture of a humpback whale in Race Passage taken from Race Rocks in 2004. |
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| The whale had also been photographed by Pam Birley of England using the remote control cam 5 from Race Rocks. | These three pictures are from that sighting. | You can see Victoria in the distance in this image. 03/10/06 0930 |
Sounds of Humpback whales from John Ford’s website:
Humpback Whale Feeding Calls:
Humpback Whale Song recording
CLASSIFICATION
Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Subclass Eutherias
Order Cetacea
Sub-order Mysiceti
Family Balaenoopteridae
Genus Megaptera
Species novaeangliae
Common Name: Hump-backed Whale (Borowski,1781)
TEMPERATURE: Max. 14.1 ºC »» Min. 9.6 ºC »» Reset 14.0 ºC
MARINE LIFE: The chatter on the marine radio reported sightings of some Minke whales and also a Humpback but not unfortunately close to us. We did see several Orca a mile or so beyond the MPA boundries.This morning we counted 172 California, 9 Northern Sea lions hauled out on West, Middle and North Rocks. The group hauled out at the dock and along the north shoreline of Gr. Race still numbers 13-15 California and 2 Northern.Most of the day they spend sleeping but through the night get quite vocal. Most of the young gulls have stopped returning to the nest areas and are usually chased off by the adults.
HUMAN INTERACTION: There were 37 Ecotour boats, 2 Charter dive boats and 7 pleasure craft through the reserve today.Station boat to Pedder Bay and back this morning.
posted by Carol or Mike S at 6:27 PM