Whale Watch

August 29th

While looking for ocean things to do, I came across some Whale Watch websites.  There was one right out of Rye, NH, only a half an hour from here!  We got our reservations and were ready to go!  I was a bit worried about sea-sickness, but we took our dramamine and were off.

This was a 4-5 hours trip into the open waters.  We got the perfect seats in the back right corner of the boat ... enough to keep the wind and splashes off and have the least amount of motion.  After almost an hour of being out on the water, (and a few sick people invading our area on the back of the boat!) they announced that our first whale had been spotted!  The cool news is that it was a Fin Whale - second largest whale AND second largest living animal to the Blue Whale, growing up to 88 ft. long!! -- the bummer was that it comes up only a few times for air before making a deep, long dive again - which doesn't offer too much viewing time. 

We did see 6 total Fin Whales, which was amazing.  But we didn't see any other types on this venture.  We'll have to go back (and Angie says she's up for a watch with us) and hope to see some others, along with some sharks.  This was a trip that was worth the 5 hours out in the open water!