We had another beautiful day at Whale WAtching Naturalist humpback whale off the Sandy Hook we were out on the ocean for about 3 1/2 hours beautiful day a little bit of a bumpy road on the way back because of winter picked up people who wanted to get sprayed by the ocean waves got it people wanna avoid it were able to avoid it.
we go whale watching seven days a week from Belmar two days a week from point Pleasant and two days a week from Keyport marina plenty of trips plenty of summer fun stuff behead will be running trips all the way till mid November we have the longest whale watching season on the East Coast of United States.
Linda writes:
Another hot day, another day to escape onto the water! With the past couple of days with whales in the Avon, Asbury Park and Long Branch area, I thought this would be an easy trip for whale watching. Well we kept heading north because we couldn’t find a whale. It was fun speaking to some of the other whale watchers as there was a family from New Mexico. First time they were ever on the Atlantic Ocean! As we approached the Highlands, saw something jump up out of the ocean. My guess is a spinner shark and others seem to agree but I really do not know. Shortly after that, it seemed the entire boat yelled “whale” as we saw it off to our right. He then decided to put on a show with frequent lunge feeds, deep dives with showing his flukes and 1 very close swim by the boat. That is when I realized how much smaller this whale (#258) was compared to others we have seen. Even got pictures of lunge feeding with the Highlands, and Verrazano Bridge serving as backgrounds. We had travel.a distance but of course we did have to go home.
The trip home was going against the wind and swells and if you wanted to stay dry, you needed to be inside. Some brave people did stay outside but not me! On the way home, around Asbury Park, a whale was reported to have lunge fed and showed his tail. Danielle, the naturalist did get a picture so she will be able to identify that whale. We also went by hundreds of cow nosed rays ( a group of rays is called a fever). Also saw Osprey, both fishing and on their nest. Another day, another adventure!! Seeing lunge feeding is exciting!
Friday 4 whales
