2011 29th January to 6th February whale sightings in Bermuda while I have been on the Silver Bank |
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Written by Andrew Stevenson | ||||
I missed the great weather here in Bermuda this past week while I have been on a live-aboard boat down on the Silver Bank, 80 miles offshore Dominican Republic almost half way to the Turks and Caicos where I have been observing the humpbacks down in their southern breeding grounds.Plenty of whales and lots of very young calves. We also had wonderful weather down on the Silver Bank. While I have been away Tim Card and family (Tyler-age 9. Bryce-age 4 and his wife, Rachel) have been keeping a look out for the whales and of course spotted whales. Here is what Tim wrote to me on Sunday 30th January: "Took my son Tyler Astwood Park today for a couple of hours where we saw one tail slapping a few time and later we had one breaching ( 2 different areas ). I have to say that it is cool being able to do things like this with our children . Things like this I hope they will always remember doing with their mom and dad." I also received an email from Alex Hasselkuss on Friday 4th February: "Hi Andrew I haven't accessed my cell phone yet (I'm still in Miami on my way home to Bermuda tomorrow, and I'm sure there will be many more phone messages on the 77-SPOUT hotline with whale sightings. I'll add these when I access my phone messages and then I'll write a trip report about the week I spent down in the whale sanctuary on the Silver Bank.
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