After the initial thrill of seeing the humpback breach, things became seriously eye-popping.
The humpback chub, for example, thrived in the rust-red waters of the Colorado.
There was a collective gasp of awe and astonishment from everyone on deck as the humpback whale breached about 200 yards away.
"Although the elephants and the humpback whales and polar bears are the animal stars, the other big star of the movie is the earth -- the planet itself, " said Fothergill.
Leaving popular Whitehaven Beach, paddle towards Peter Bay, 19km north on Whitsunday Island, where you may see a sea eagle gracefully plucking dinner from the ocean and perhaps a humpback whale breaching the surface.
The peninsula is a haven for wildlife: humpback whales in the crystal blue water, elephant seals beached on Pleneau Island, squawking adelie, chinstrap and gentoo penguins, and wheeling cormorants, petrels and terns.
The image was inspired by a humpback whale butchered in 1883 at the Tay, which served as a main whaling port.
Look, I know there are going to be a few defensive headphone-wearers out there who claim that they never crank the volume, and only listen to soft Ray LaMontagne or humpback whales, and can hear the traffic all around them.
And, on the beach itself, Gotfod points out canine footprints circling the putrefying carcass of a humpback whale, covered in ghost crabs.
Attracted by plankton, krill and large shoals of herring, minke, fin, humpback, and the occasional killer whale habitually pass through the briny coastal waters between Donegal and Cork City.
We heard the expelling of air through a blowhole and tracked down a humpback, watching as her dorsal fin arched out of the water.
These are cool tropical islands where humpback whales calve in the winter, and where, in some places, one can feel like the only visitor that ever ventured this far.
Here, humpback whales frolic for much of the winter months and four species of dolphin can be seen year-round.
With other Explorers Club members, Bennett has traveled to Hawaii to study humpback whales, to Madagascar to catalog the island's flora and fauna, to Mount Kilimanjaro for a bit of bioprospecting, and to Easter Island for an archeology project.
While fin and humpback whales have seen gains in population since the 1990s, the number of blues has declined or remained flat.
The Navy disputes his assessment, saying this year's humpback whale season was normal, and more whales than ever before were seen in March 1998, when biologists studied humpbacks' response to the Navy's Low-Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) equipment in Hawaiian waters.
The silent boats allow kayakers to paddle into kelp beds to watch humpback whales feed and seals frolic.
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