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Blue whale watching part 2

August 31, 2013 by Carolyn Kraft 1 Comment

On Saturday, August 24th, I had the chance to go whale watching a second time on Harbor Breeze Cruises in Long Beach and had another great trip. The boat left at 9am and headed out into a foggy soup. Once we got out of the harbor we couldn’t see anything for a hundred yards, no… [read more]

Filed Under: Turtles, Whales Tagged With: baleen, barnacle, blue whale, cetacean, endangered, green sea turtle, whale, wildlife photography

Check out the flukes on this whale!

August 11, 2010 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

I was just perusing my photos from the last whale watching adventure and noticed this one. Somehow is slipped past me on the first run through. This is a shot of a humpback whale’s flukes and yes flukes is plural. I always found this strange because the word tail isn’t plural so why would flukes… [read more]

Filed Under: Whales Tagged With: barnacle, flukes, lunge feeding, whale, whale watching

Barnacles: living on a whale

January 22, 2010 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

Barnacles seem to have quite the life indeed. These crustaceans represent a diverse group that includes more than 1,000 species. Some of these barnacles have adapted to living on marine mammals and tend to hang out on some of the baleen whales. My guess is that it’s easier to live and stay attached to a… [read more]

Filed Under: Marine mammals, Whales Tagged With: barnacle, cetacean, crustacean, pinniped, whale

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