Between December — April the chances
of seeing Whales is 95 % or better, but if you don't see any Whales we invite you back on complimentary tours until you see Whales!
Whale watching by boat will allow you to quickly move to areas where sightings are reported, increasing your changes
of seeing whales.
Over the years we have seen whales throughout the entire winter season, but for the best chance
of seeing whales coming on a trip from early February to late March is your best bet.
We have averaged about 50 % success rate
of seeing whales on our kayak day trips compared to over 95 % on our longer base camp and explorer kayak tours.
You will have a better chance
of seeing whales if you visit between late July and early September.
I usually focus on less crowded attractions, but fancied the idea
of seeing whales along such a beautiful bit of New Zealand's coast - so I did the boat trip to see if the hype was deserved.
We talked about the importance
of them seeing the whales.
At these times your chance
of seeing whales is higher if you take a dedicated whale watching tour in a high speed boat.
However there are times when your best chance
of seeing whales requires a long off shore journey (which may or may not be uncomfortable) or a journey that is well beyond our range.
And to top it off, on our last morning there, we had the privilege
of seeing a whale surfacing and blowing in the bay right outside of the house!!
Chances
of seeing whale sharks are high in February to May.
If you'd rather keep your feet on the ground but still yearn for the special experience
of seeing a whale, Australia's east coast is the best place to spot whales from the beach.
Not exact matches
According to Gabriel's father, Fernando, his son became interested in UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles, a few months ago after
seeing YouTube postings
of personal drone footage — everything from drones flying through fireworks displays and capturing aerial views
of killer
whales in British Columbia's Johnson Strait to police activity on the streets
of California and kids surfing monster waves in Newport Beach.
Or they show this kind
of whale - eye posture — you can
see the whites
of their eyes.
Puerto Vallarta itself is tucked between the lush green mountains and the cerulean blue waters
of the Pacific Ocean's Bay
of Banderas, the second - largest bay in the world where on any given day, you might
see whales and dolphins jumping and sailfish soaring
Biomechanics expert John Long believes that someday soon «we may well
see every single jetliner with the bumps
of humpback
whale flippers.»
look at the skeletal structure
of a
whale and you will
see all
of the parts
of other land based mammals.
Those who are offended by the claim that horses or chimps or
whales (OFD; also
see OOTM 13, WM 49) deserve more respect than the fetus in the early stages
of pregnancy usually resort to a type
of question - begging which Peter Singer calls «speciesism»: the human fetus in the early stages
of pregnancy deserves moral respect just because it is human.
I think these are the words that came out
of Jonah's mouth when he
saw the
whale.
According to Dr. Altizer, «Ahab's mad quest for the white
whale can be
seen as faith's response to the death
of God, wherein the man
of faith becomes the murderer
of God so as to make possible a historical actualization
of God's death in Jesus, and thus an apocalyptic consummation
of God's original self - sacrifice or self - negation.»
i always
see «healthy breakfast cookies» being pinned and re-pinned on pinterest boards daily... if i made every «healthy» breakfast recipe i
saw on there, i might be the size
of a baby beluga
whale!
There were so many amazing parts
of my vacation to Cabo last week —
seeing whales from our balcony daily, amazing food (and drinks) with the family and boyfriend, absolutely perfect weather, but the highlight was definitely cooking school at Los Tamarindos.
I should also mention that during my visit in the February timeframe, while I was eating breakfast each morning at Azul's patio with glistening ocean vistas, I could
see breaching
whales in the distance in all
of their glory.
Secretly, we've only included this because we quite like the idea that the tiny island
of hair on the top
of Steve McClaren's forehead might also be a
whale, albeit a tiny one, and that at some point this season it's just going to shudder into life, then slip back into his skull, never to be
seen again.)
Grandma took us to the Museum
of Natural History and T thought the
whale hanging from the ceiling was the coolest airplane he'd ever
seen.
Your kids will love being out on the water, and when you witness a
whale breach in the wild, or
see a stream
of mist shoot skyward from the surface
of the Pacific, you'll all be truly awestruck.
One doesn't often
see the words «enacted,» «repealed» or «passed» in the campaign literature
of downtrodden, lower - than -
whale - spit minority members
of the state legislature.
One doesn't often
see the words «enacted,» «repealed» or «passed» in the campaign literature
of downtrodden, lower - than -
whale - spit minority members
of
Shane Gero
of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and his colleagues tracked sperm
whale populations in the Caribbean and Sargasso seas to
see what happened when mothers dived for food.
Nevertheless, it appears that the
whale population was once vastly bigger than we thought, and that our slaughter
of them was more thorough than history records (
see «Lost leviathans: Hunting the world's missing
whales»).
Known as the «right» kind
of whales for hunting, the last North Pacific right
whale in Canadian waters was
seen (and killed) by whalers in 1951.
This left - handed barrel roll may be a strategic move to help
whales use their better eye to
see less - dense patches
of krill that congregate near the surface, Friedlaender and colleagues speculate.
While no one is certain that what André heard was a right
whale, NEPTUNE's John Ford
saw one swimming north
of the array in June.
Victoria Gill and Andrew Luck - Baker
of BBC Radio 4 won the Gold Award in the audio category for a story on menopause among killer
whales and the role
of sprightly matriarchs who can be
seen breaching the coastal waterways between British Columbia and Washington state.
Some species
of dolphins and
whales adapted to the new environment by evolving echolocation, which allows them to «
see» with their ears.
«That's going to disrupt food chains that sustain the kinds
of creatures we're used to
seeing at the poles — sea lions, penguins, and
whales — and instead promote a microbe - dominated community,» he says.
In the late 1970s, observers on a SeaWorld research boat off the tip
of Baja California
saw about 30 transients come in from all angles to attack a 60 - foot blue
whale.
Syracuse University biologist Holly Root - Gutteridge analyzed recordings
of whale calls to
see if researchers could use those sounds to identify individual
whales.
... [We'll be able to] look at this whole strip... and
see the [numbers
of] sperm
whales and Bryde
whales and bottle - nosed dolphins.
On Christmas Day 2010, an aerial team
of wildlife spotters
saw a
whale in distress off the eastern coast
of Florida.
The research traces its origins to one summer day in 2007, when a worker on a Maersk Oil platform in the Al Shaheen oil field off the coast
of Qatar
saw a surprising sight: a group
of roughly 100
whale sharks feeding near the surface.
«In 10 years we may well
see every single jetliner with the bumps
of humpback
whale flippers.»
According to Tara Stevens, who will earn her doctorate at the University
of Rhode Island Graduate School
of Oceanography later this year, about 200 killer
whales are believed to live in the area, most
of which are
seen in the summer months around Newfoundland.
Some animals can detect this field, which reveals the direction
of magnetic north, and use it to navigate (
see «
Whales and terns turn together»).
Researchers studying
whales, snakes, and other animals are finding that female sex organs have some
of the same baroque complexity
seen in males.
Researchers
saw dining in progress and lowered a GoPro camera on a pole for an underwater view
of the
whale swooping by.
The rarely
seen Cuvier's beaked
whale, which is able to dive some 3 kilometers below the surface
of the ocean, was tapped for listing on Appendix I, the convention's top level
of protection.
The mere presence
of filter feeders as large as Tamisiocaris suggests that Cambrian ecosystems were much more productive than previously recognized, the researchers contend: As
seen in modern species as diverse as fish, sharks, and
whales, large animals can successfully exploit small prey only when they can be sieved from the environment in great concentrations.
The genus Osedax,
seen here on a
whale's rib at the bottom
of Monterey Canyon off the California coast, releases acid through its roots, according to findings presented at the Society for Experimental Biology's annual meeting earlier this summer.
American Museum
of Natural History, New York City While everyone else crams in to
see the dinosaurs or the hanging blue
whale, head to the third floor for the delicate taxidermy in the Sanford Hall
of North American Birds and the quiet grandeur
of the Margaret Mead Hall
of Pacific Peoples.