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Friday, 17 August 2012

Humpies with pale underparts.



With the animal showing different angles when it breached the pec fins could possibly been not so obvious especially in such rough seas and no doubt bins covered in salt!
As for a Minke,the one final breach had me thinking it was a Minke with that long thin shape!
 My initial thought was too big and robust for a Minke.  Unidentified!!
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Slaphead said...
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17 August 2012 at 17:54
Slaphead said...

Also there was more than one person that saw a blow,would a Minke blow in that sea state have been visible?...... doubtful,the 2 animal theory?........ unlikely and the 'invisible' pecs?........ peculiar.

Surely it can only go down as Spp or unidentified.

17 August 2012 at 18:03
Richard G. Smith said...

The last line of comment hit the nail right on the Head -it was too big for a Minke with only waves for comparison - I thought it was a thirty footer with 20 ft waves - looks just the same as a sixty footer and 40 foot waves de dum de dum de..................Fin - hoorah!

19 August 2012 at 16:45

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