Aquatic Adventures

06/09/2025

05/11/2025

Happy Mother’s Day 💙

Video: Susan Bird

The loving relationship between humpback mother Sanskrit and her calf Papyrus is evident in the way they tenderly interact. The little male calf is approxima...

05/09/2025

This could be you! 🐻👀

We have a few spaces available to join our small group adventure to Kodiak and Katmai National Park & Preserve, Alaska this summer, August 14 - 21, 2025!

Message for more details!

04/27/2025

04/07/2025

Video & caption from Susan Bird:

And here is the moving version of Open Sesame!
This is Papyrus approaching us with flair, gliding over Sanskrit's head. The clip was filmed while hugging the side of the 'Es**rt' as the mother/calf duo swam directly under our tender. Thank you to Gillian Morin for holding me in place so I could capture and share the moment.
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A small humpback calf demonstrates a future feeding technique by opening his mouth widely and filtering water through his ventral pleats as he glides over hi...

03/09/2025

To our invaluable team member (captain, marine biologist, and too many other rockstar titles & responsibilities to mention 💫)
Gillian ~ you are so appreciated!

Happy International Women’s Day!

03/08/2025

Another week spent watching numerous calves growing & learning!

Papyrus, the six-week old humpback calf displays his moves with remarkable agility and grace. He and his serene mother were first sighted during the week of ...

02/22/2025

02/21/2025

Who is watching who?! Another magical week full of encounters with this curious calf and his beautiful, calm mother, as well as many more mother/calf pairs!

Will be sharing more from the first 5 weeks of this 2025 season soon!

[Photo: Anne Goyette, February 2025]

12/18/2024

The burps, barks and snorts humpback whales make when asking their mother for milk are the first recorded instances of begginglike behavior in a baleen whale

12/10/2024

This is where our plastic bags can end up. To the dismay of onlookers, today we met a calf who was mouthing what she considered a 'chew toy'. Thankfully the playful girl rolled on her back while near the surface, allowing me to pluck the plastic from her mouth. The reward of preventing her from swallowing the bag was worth the (thoroughly) disappointed look she gave me when I took away her toy.
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