Spoon the Humpback Whale

September 24th, 2008 Permalink

We took a Whale Watching tour  on a Catamaran out of Bar Harbor, Maine.   Frankly the boat alone was worth the price of admission–a fast jet powered catamaran.   We lucked out and saw a number of humpback whales–the most famous was Spoon the Humpback Whale;  Spoon’s one of the largest humpback’s in the Gulf of […]

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We took a Whale Watching tour  on a Catamaran out of Bar Harbor, Maine.   Frankly the boat alone was worth the price of admission–a fast jet powered catamaran.   We lucked out and saw a number of humpback whales–the most famous was Spoon the Humpback Whale;  Spoon’s one of the largest humpback’s in the Gulf of Maine.   You can identify whale’s by the unique marking’s on the fluke.   The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Main maintains the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalogue.  By the way, I had a GPS unit on the camera while taking pictures so I can plot the track our catamaran took as well as the exact spots of the whale pictures.  Cool technology.

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  • Robert

    One of our favorite trips always.  We spent part of October in Chatham every year for about five years when the kids were young.  We almost always missed the color, but we typically most tourists and vacationers were gone.  Your picture brings back great memories.