Happy Mystery Monday!
Can you guess this animal? We decided to make it a bit harder this week. This photo was taken on one of our trips in Baja. We’ll reveal the answer on Friday, so stay tuned for the answer and more from the field!
📷 by Team Searcher
Mystery Monday revealed! The answer is:
Humpback 🐋
📷 by Mark W.
Monday’s Mystery photo showed just a glimpse of a humpback whale. But there’s so much more to see of these magnificent whales. Humpbacks are known to be very active and even acrobatic at the surface, which can catch the eye of whalewatchers even at a distance of miles.
Passengers on a trip got to listen to the lovely songs of the humpback whales. These humpbacks were singing for quite sometime and naturalist Marc Webber was able to record their songs and sounds on this recording off the Gorda Banks.
https://youtu.be/AB4BXyahM18
Happy Mystery Monday!
Can you guess this animal? We decided to make it a bit harder this week. This photo was taken on one of our trips in Baja. We’ll reveal the answer on Friday, so stay tuned for the answer and more from the field!
📷 by Team Searcher
Happy Mystery Monday!
Can you guess this animal? We decided to make it a bit harder this week. This photo was taken on one of our trips in Baja. We’ll reveal the answer on Friday, so stay tuned for the answer and more from the field!
📷 by Linda Lewis
Happy Mystery Monday!
Can you guess this animal? We decided to make it a bit harder this week. This photo was taken on one of our trips in Baja. We’ll reveal the answer on Friday, so stay tuned for the answer and more from the field!
📷by Team Searcher
Mystery Monday revealed! The answer is: Blue Whale
📸 by Chris E.
This is a blue whale surface lunge feeding with one of the tail flukes sticking out of the water as it’s on its side. Blue whales are the most massive animals to ever live on the planet. They are obligate krill eaters, and consume many tons of plankton every day. A calf gains 6 pounds per hour while nursing and the whale in this photo was with her calf when Searcher happened upon a feeding frenzy. In addition to this pair, we saw lots of birds, dolphins, and a Bryde’s whale. It was spectacular. –Paul Jones
Happy Mystery Monday!
Can you guess this animal? We decided to make it a bit harder this week. This photo was taken on one of our trips in Baja. We’ll reveal the answer on Friday, so stay tuned for the answer and more from the field!
📷by Paul Jones
Mystery Monday revealed! The answer is: California Sea Lion
📸 by Team Searcher
This is the iconic California sea lion, once used as a circus performer (sadly), but now seen in the wild across the coastal waters of the Pacific from Alaska to the Gulf of California, Baja. Seen at sea as far out as 100 miles or more, they are more more often seen nearshore at their haul out sites and rookeries. On Searcher trips, we see these amazing animals at several places, but most notably at Los Islotes where we can snorkel with them. There are bulls, nursing females with their pups born the previous year, and plenty of frisky juveniles. In and out of the water, they’re fun to watch, but I like to see them “porpoising” when they are traveling fast and leaping several body lengths at a time. They hit this “crossover speed” to avoid high wave drag in the water and go airborne to both breathe and cover some ground. They are deep divers, playful, tough, smart, and resilient. What’s not to like? –Paul Jones.
