Moonrise at Kismeet
Falcon Fishing beside our boats
As if to say "Whad Ya Lookin' At"
Talking Whale
Bye Bye Evesdropping Humans
We have driven by this bay many times over the years and have never had the forsight to stop in. We had heard good things from different people and slowly made our way into a very scenic bay just off of Fitzhugh Sound. The bay is filled with large schools of herring - minus two. Minus Two? Dave was fishing off the bow of Oceanaire and managed to land himself two of the largest herring we have ever seen. They are about the size of the pinks he was catching earlier on in this trip! We froze them in the hopes that Mike would be able to get a nice Spring Salmon with them!
We went off highspeed gunkholing and managed to sneak through a ditch that took us clear through to the next channel (Burke Channel) and on the way back to our anchorage, we stopped to see the whales. I have never experienced hearing whale calls before, I never knew they could be so vocal. They sound like very loud Trumpets mixed with a bit of a fog horn. They would come to the surface and through their blow holes would make this loud sound that echoed off of the surrounding land and then another whale in the distance would answer. What a treat that was!
After our return from our amazing gunkhole, we were sitting outside having a drink when we heard the sound of the blowhole of a whale and there in front of Oceanaire, was one of the whales feeding. This bay must have been part of his dinner circuit! Another First for us all.
As we pull out in the morning in the fog, we pass two whales at the entrance to Kismeet. A mom and Baby. We are probably about 50 feet away when they surface and both blow simultaneously. What a stink! I ran back into the bridge of the boat and said to Mike, if whales fart through their blow holes, they sure stink! Probably just bad breath?
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