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Great footage of Billie the Port River dolphin

May 22, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 2 Comments

During December of last year, I wrote several posts about the Adelaide Port River dolphins featuring amazing photos and information from Paul and Debbie Huxtable, a pair of fabulous wildlife photographers who live in Adelaide, South Australia and post many great photos on their Adelaide Port River dolphins website. This week I received an email… [read more]

Filed Under: Dolphins Tagged With: bottlenose dolphin, cetacean, dolphin, nature photography, port river dolphins, whale watching, wildlife photography

Have a whale of a Mother’s Day!

May 13, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 1 Comment

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there whether you are feathered, finned, furry or footed! Since this past week was full of fascinating whale news, it’s the perfect time to highlight the trials and tribulations facing some finned moms out there (it’s actually more accurate to say knuckled for gray whales since they… [read more]

Filed Under: Earth musings, Whales Tagged With: cetacean, dorsal fin, gray whale, humpback whale, killer whale, orca, whale, whale watching

Great photo of a fin whale’s asymmetrical jaw coloring

May 8, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 1 Comment

This is an aerial shot of a fin whale, the second largest baleen whale and the fastest. It’s a great photo because it shows the asymmetrical coloring of the fin whale’s lower jaw. Take a close look on the left (your left, the whale’s right) and you can see the white coloring all along the… [read more]

Filed Under: Photography, Whales Tagged With: baleen, cetacean, fin whale, nature photography, whale, whale watching, wildlife photography

Getting inside the dream just for fun

March 22, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 3 Comments

It just so happens that I’m taking a writing class to expand my skills and increase my creative repertoire. For class last night, my homework was to write the same story from three different points of view. I had no idea what to write at first and then I started thinking about that crazy dream… [read more]

Filed Under: Dolphins, Earth musings Tagged With: cetacean, dolphin, dorsal fin, endangered, extinct, over-fishing, shark

Dreamt I was saved by a dolphin

March 15, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 2 Comments

A dolphin saved me in a dream! Having a dolphin rescue me was pretty cool, however the rest of the dream was not so cool. But before I get to the dream, I have to recap the events leading up to it. On Tuesday, March 13th, there were a lot of posts on facebook and… [read more]

Filed Under: Dolphins Tagged With: cetacean, dolphin, dorsal fin, endangered, extinct, fishing, gillnet fishing

Perfection in a dolphin’s tail

March 1, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 1 Comment

This dolphin photo is probably my best, hence the reason it’s the wallpaper on my computer. So I end up spending a lot of time with this common dolphin, wondering how an unidentified piece of string is stuck to its head when its swimming so fast. And where is this dolphin now? What is it… [read more]

Filed Under: Dolphins, Earth musings Tagged With: cetacean, dolphin, dorsal fin, flukes, whale watching

And the Oscar goes to…humpback whales!

February 27, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 1 Comment

Last night was another Oscar ceremony full of glitz and glamor, with beautiful and talented men and women taking the stage to accept awards for being beautiful and/or talented. Of course they also make big money for being so beautiful and talented. But what about all the unpaid stars out there? Who is left dancing… [read more]

Filed Under: Whales Tagged With: cetacean, humpback whale, whale, whale watching

Celebrate heart day your way

February 14, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

It’s Valentine’s Day! But how did Valentine’s Day become all about couples? Why can’t it just be about love and celebrating what you love in life whether that’s a place, idea, cause or person? Instead of getting caught up in the Hallmark driven malarkey, celebrate what inspires you, your passions in life, what you love.… [read more]

Filed Under: Earth musings, Whales Tagged With: cetacean, humpback whale, whale, whale watching

The whales of Moby Dick part 1

February 2, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 1 Comment

I’m finally reading Moby Dick for the first time in my life. It was never assigned reading during my entire educational experience and I never got around to reading it post-college. And then the book club I joined last fall decided they wanted to read Moby Dick and as the whale enthusiast in the group… [read more]

Filed Under: Whales Tagged With: books, cetacean, ocean books, whale, wildlife books

More killer whale photos

January 30, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 2 Comments

Finally, here are the rest of my killer whale photos! One of the questions everyone asked me after the trip was: “How close did the killer whales get to the boat?” The photo on the left captured the answer: very close. When these two whales surfaced directly in front of the boat there was a… [read more]

Filed Under: Dolphins, Whales Tagged With: cetacean, dolphin, killer whale, orca, whale, whale watching

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