Whales

So, once aboard the good ship ´HydroSport´ we were warned by el Captain that we may have a bit of a wait on our hands. I was mentally preparing myself for an hour or two to wait. It´s the end of the season for the Southern Right Whale here in P.Madryn and most of them have already headed south to Antartica for the summer. However, after only 20 minutes the captain pointed off the starboard side - looking over I could see nothing but waves and a set of sleepy Sealions resting on the rocks.

Then all of a sudden rising out of the water came the biggest living thing i shall probably ever see. It was incredible. Majestic. Beautiful. I even gasped and swore in english, spanish and german. Then junior (as big as a bloody big car) turned up for a nosey.


I´m told that these were the last the last left in town and I feel very lucky just to have seen them. However, many other people I spoke to just saw them swimming around and blowing their blow holes, but while we were out there they started leaping out of the water and doing the whole splashing around thing. Holy Shit /Merde / Sheisser!! My photos do it no justice, of course, but it was remarkable and quite quite special I can tell you.


We spent about 45 minutes following them and then sadly returned to Terra Firma (oh - yeah - Terra means land and Torres means Towers... thats been bugging me for days nows).