Thar She Blows!

This trip out into the Atlantic Ocean was a pretty awesome one. The weather was perfect, and cool, since the City was in the middle of a heat wave, while in the Atlantic, the temperature was about 30-degrees cooler! We saw four humpback whales in the course of just a few hours, at one point one on each end of the boat.

Whale Spotting

I went out onto the Atlantic Ocean this afternoon, in the hunt for humpback whales. The first one we saw was actually two, a cow and her calf, but unfortunately they eluded us. We just saw their spouts from a distance twice.

The third one we saw was about two miles off the shore of Staten Island (NY) and Sandy Hook (NJ). We spent most of the time around this one. At one point, the whale changed directions and surfaced near the bow of the ship, where we almost hit it, but it dove under. All the pics from today's adventure are of this one, except for two pics (which I haven't put up).

The last one was seen when we were returning. We spotted this one in the waters between Staten Island and Breezy Point (NY), but this one was a speed demon. Saw this one about 2-3 times, before it vanished from site.

Saturday Hijinks

Woke up early this morning and made my way to Coney Island to hit the beach. I wanted to see if I could catch any migrating cetaceans or pinnipeds in the water. When I got there it was cold as hell, despite bundling up, and the wind was blowing so much that the temperature was probably below zero. After five minutes of this, I just gave up and headed home.

Tonight I plan on attending Sextacular! Sextacular!, so hopefully I get some good pics of some performances.

Still going through the photos of last Sunday, but here's another photo from the shoot: