Today followed the same pattern as yesterday.......however every whale watching trip is unique. This morning we had a long interaction with a mother and calf. Mum had a big red gash by her blow hole which was probably done on the rocks. The youngest was learning how to interact with boats as first time she 'nutted' the front which gave us a jolt. Eventually she was spy hopping right beside us - you could see her eye was reddish in colour- a bit blood shot. She let people touch her and they could felt the bristly hairs growing out of her face. John touched her lips and we got a fleeting glance of her baleen as she opened her mouth. Mum stayed around the boat watching but clearly felt happy as unlike really protective mums didn't try to get between us and her calf. In the afternoon there were lots of singles, lots if spy hopping and at times we didn't know where to look but no very close encounters. We also saw larger groups of bottle nose dolphins swimming close by. Over lunch the tide was really out leaving extensive mud flats outside our cabin - we spotted a coyote out hunting on the water edge -it eventually returned with what looked like an octopus in its mouth and started to eat it on the bank at the lagoon edge.
Other birds today included - Herman's gull and frigate birds.
Marks presentations were excellent as usual and looked at what makes a really good photograph and in the evening, the programme he made with Stephen Fry - 'The Last Chance to See' - which included the now famous scene of a kakapo attacking/ mating with his neck, in New Zealand.
(Today's photo is a whale spy hopping).