The wind has left me. This morning the seas are calm for the first time in what seems like a very long time. Early this morning I saw the most impressive thing. I could hear whales a few hundred yards off my port side. From their spouts or blows I could tell that they are a baleen species.
Baleen whales have two blowholes, where toothed whales usually just have one.
With a few spouts it was easy to tell that there were two blowholes. I'd given up hope of seeing more than an occasional dorsal fin of their dive sequence when one of the whales breached. It took my breath away. It looked like a Minke whale, but it could have been any of the same family. I was too shocked by the display to notice more than a great white belly and could guess the whale's size to be about 30 feet.