Today we woke up early and headed for the Bay Bulls to the O’Brian’s Boat tour.
We headed out at 11:00am and had the hat trick. We started with a sighting of a couple humpback whales (a mother and calf) we then saw a Minke whale. After watching the whales for a little while we then sailed over to Bird Island where we saw many, many birds. We saw thousand of puffins many of the puffins that where on the water were so full on Capelin (a small fish) that they couldn’t fly and had to scoot across the water on their bellies to get out of the way of the boat.
We finished off our tour with a close up few of an iceberg.
After our boat tour we drove around the Southern tip of Newfoundland the Irish loop in the car. We stopped at a couple of great beaches. One of the beaches we stopped at is called St Vincent’s.
St Vincent’s is special because it is a bay with a beachfront but the ledge drops down quickly after the beach. The beachfront is what the Capelin likes for spawning. The birds and whales follow the Capelin into the bay for feeding. Because the ledge drops down so quickly after the beach the whales are able to swim very close to the land. When we where there the Bay was filled with at least 50 whales feeding and playing and 100’s of gulls diving into the ocean getting their fill of fish. Some of the whales were only 50 yds from the shoreline.
We ended our day introducing Daddy to Ches’s fish and chips
We headed out at 11:00am and had the hat trick. We started with a sighting of a couple humpback whales (a mother and calf) we then saw a Minke whale. After watching the whales for a little while we then sailed over to Bird Island where we saw many, many birds. We saw thousand of puffins many of the puffins that where on the water were so full on Capelin (a small fish) that they couldn’t fly and had to scoot across the water on their bellies to get out of the way of the boat.
We finished off our tour with a close up few of an iceberg.
After our boat tour we drove around the Southern tip of Newfoundland the Irish loop in the car. We stopped at a couple of great beaches. One of the beaches we stopped at is called St Vincent’s.
St Vincent’s is special because it is a bay with a beachfront but the ledge drops down quickly after the beach. The beachfront is what the Capelin likes for spawning. The birds and whales follow the Capelin into the bay for feeding. Because the ledge drops down so quickly after the beach the whales are able to swim very close to the land. When we where there the Bay was filled with at least 50 whales feeding and playing and 100’s of gulls diving into the ocean getting their fill of fish. Some of the whales were only 50 yds from the shoreline.
We ended our day introducing Daddy to Ches’s fish and chips
2 comments:
Wow, looks like a wonderful trip! Your kids are so grown up :) Looking forward to seeing more Brown Family adventures.
Miss you and the kids so mach, I saw your pictures they are magnificent, hope to see more. Keep in touch
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