{"id":14008,"date":"2021-04-22T12:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T04:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalistecharters.com.au\/?p=14008"},"modified":"2022-05-10T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T06:46:51","slug":"today-orca-whale-expedition","status":"publish","type":"daily_blogs","link":"https:\/\/naturalistecharters.dilatevps1.cloudsites.net.au\/old\/blogs\/daily\/today-orca-whale-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Orca Whale Expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.9&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>21.04.21<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalistecharters.dilatevps1.cloudsites.net.au\/old\/bremercanyonkillerwhales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">orca expedition<\/a><\/strong> felt like two completely separate days!<\/p>\n<p>An almost glass-off morning full of sunshine and feeding animals turned to grey skies and grey water not long after lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Our commute to the hotspot was interrupted by a BLUE WHALE! This mighty giant was travelling along with two other friends not too far behind. We managed to snap a couple identification photos, all in the name of science\u00a0 The beast continued on at pace so we continued on our path!<\/p>\n<p>We were greeted with feeding pilots and a sperm whale to keep our searching momentum going. However at midday a front rolled through with light showers for the most part of a few hours! The eerie feeling was overwhelming especially when a larger cargo ship was barely visible off in the distant motoring past.<\/p>\n<p>Through the mist, a male orca dorsal was spotted but it disappeared sub-surface before any other trace was left! The conditions were now on the difficult end of the spectrum to find animals, although we love a challenge!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/naturalistecharters.dilatevps1.cloudsites.net.au\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/orca-new-born-scaled.jpg&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.9&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.9&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 1em;\">Another spermie appeared suddenly in front of us! A large smelly oil slick rose to surface moments after him suggesting he was mid-feed. Rebreathing and resting, while his body digested its squid lunch and replenished oxygen stores. A long back arch and tail up, but this descent was out of the ordinary. This spermy was &#8220;offloading&#8221; a bit of weight as a big green ploom of digested squid was defecated and left behind at the surface.<\/p>\n<p>It was a day for the birders with 10 species in total sighted:<\/p>\n<p>Shy Albatross<\/p>\n<p>Black Brow Albatross<\/p>\n<p>Yellow nose Albatross<\/p>\n<p>Flesh-Footed Shearwater<\/p>\n<p>Great winged Petrel (a winter visitor)<\/p>\n<p>Brown Skua<\/p>\n<p>Huttons Shearwater<\/p>\n<p>Little Shearwater<\/p>\n<p>Soft Plumaged Petrel (winter visitor)<\/p>\n<p>and the cherry on top!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 1em;\">Light Mantled Sooty Albatross<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13972,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>19.04.2021<\/p><p>After many hours on the water today, we unfortunately headed home without catching a glimpse of the main attraction, orca.\u00a0<\/p><p>Although orca-less, our day certainly wasn\u2019t without wildlife. Pilot Whales kept us entertained in the morning while we encountered energetic striped dolphins at midday and then a lone bull sperm whale in the afternoon.\u00a0<\/p><p>Squalls of light rain whooshed past us, and on the horizon were more patches of this same weather. It provided an epic moody backdrop, with a waterspout appearing at one point! A waterspout is a vortex or column of water connecting the ocean to the clouds above. Basically like a mini cyclone. Ours juuuuust touched, enough for Machi to get a legendary photograph.<\/p><p>The highlight would have to be the striped dolphins. An easy 200 individuals were busting out of the surface, giving an appearance of boiling water!\u00a0Every so often one particularly boisterous dolphin would propel itself easily 2 or so meters into the air! Wriggling it\u2019s body for maximum hang time, it would \u201cfree Willy\u201d back into the water almost 10 meters from take off. Like popcorn going off, they couldn't be contained to their fluid home. Some even jumping higher than the shearwaters were flying!\u00a0<\/p><p>We try again tomorrow where we will have a sunshine filled day!\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14008","daily_blogs","type-daily_blogs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-whale-watching-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v28.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Today&#039;s Orca Whale Expedition - Naturaliste Charters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today&#039;s expedition felt like two completely separate days!A n almost glass-off morning full of sunshine &amp; feeding animals turned to grey skies after lunch.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Today&#039;s Orca Whale Expedition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today&#039;s expedition felt like two completely separate days!A n almost glass-off morning full of sunshine &amp; feeding animals turned to grey skies after lunch.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/naturalistecharters.com.au\/blogs\/daily\/today-orca-whale-expedition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Naturaliste Charters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/naturalistecharterswhalewatching\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-10T06:46:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/naturalistecharters.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/killer-whale-calf-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1134\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nat_charters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/naturalistecharters.com.au\\\/blogs\\\/daily\\\/today-orca-whale-expedition\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/naturalistecharters.com.au\\\/blogs\\\/daily\\\/today-orca-whale-expedition\\\/\",\"name\":\"Today's Orca Whale Expedition - 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