Whales
Some photos of Minke Whales I took in January and February. The first is a pair, one is beginning to dive and you can see the fin, and the second has just breached while blowing. The second image was two pods, one about 10 and one about 20 in size, swimming around and through each other. I held my camera up to the eyepiece of a pair of binoculars to get a better zoom, hence the strange border on the image. The third is a single Minke in front of Pine Island Glacier.
Other whale news I have recently come across: The Australian Antarctic Division has just performed an aerial survey of Whales in the Southern Ocean. Perhaps they saw some of the same ones I saw.
And National Geographic has a very nice Blue Whale infographic website (including how it compares to the Minke Whales in size and weight). Click around there to learn all about their weight, size, anatomy, behavior, and threats to their health and livelyhood.
