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August 14-16, 2005 at the Great South Channel

The early morning of our 5th trip to the Great South Channel in four years started in fog and remained foggy with limited visibility throughout much of the morning.  This did not hamper our ability to find humpback whales.  Based upon our sightings in previous years, we decided upon a search area and were with our first group of whales by 7:15 AM.  Our day began with a trio, Echo and her 4th calf being escorted by Tectonic.  Our whale sightings for the day ended hours later as a minke whale breached 27 times.  Our second day was as rewarding as the first.  Look below for the ID's and some images of the 30 humpbacks we encountered, including 6 cow/calf pairs.

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Sighting Summaries

The detailed list of humpback sightings was compiled by Cara Pekarcik of  The Whale Center of New England who joined us to help identify individuals.

List of sighted humpbacks:

Identifications
Echo and her 4th calf (female)
Firefly and her 3rd calf (male)
Zeppelin and her 3rd calf
Purity and her 9th calf
Binary and her 4th calf
Blackhole and her 2nd calf
Crystal
Duckpin
Tunguska
Leonid
Springboard
Dracula
Tilt
Tectonic
Spike
Polaris
Loon
Canopy
Infinity
Lariat
Saloon
Danforth
2 unidentified humpbacks

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Click on a thumbnail to get an enlarged view.  All images were taken for CRESLI by A. H. Kopelman.

Blackhole, female, first seen in 1998. Seen on this trip with her second calf	Crystal Crystal, male, 1980 calf of Salt	Dracula, female first seen in 1990	Duckpin, first seen in 1999. This is its first sighting in the Great South Channel
Duckpin, first seen in 1999. This is its first sighting in the Great South Channel	Duckpin, first seen in 1999. This is its first sighting in the Great South Channel	Duckpin, first seen in 1999. This is its first sighting in the Great South Channel	Echo Echo, female, first seen in 1988
Echo and calf The smaller animal (in the foreground) is Echo's 4th calf (a female)	Echo	Echo's calf	Firefly Firefly, female, first seen in 1990
Firefly's calf Firefly's 3rd calf (a male)	Lariat, first seen in 2001	Leonid Leonid was first seen in 2003	Purity (also known as Ivory), female first seen in 1979. Seen on this trip with her 9th calf!!
Saloon Saloon, first seen in 2000	Springboard Springboard, female, first seen in 1997	Tectonic Tectonic, first seen in 1997	Tunguska Tunguska, male, 1997 calf of Leukos
Zeppelin Zeppelin, female, 1989 calf of Milkyway	Zeppelin's calf This is Zeppelin's 3rd calf.

For more information on humpback whales, click here.

For links to earlier sighting reports and photos from Great South Channel trips, click here.

For information about our 2007 Great South Channel trips, click here.