Wed Sept 3 – Whale Watching

*Last trips of the season coming up! Sat Sept 6 – SOLD OUT!, Sun Sept 7 & Mon Sept 8

SPECTACULAR TRIP – 4 species of cetaceans!

A calm, crystal clear, beautiful day. We had unlimited visibility, relatively calm seas, and were able to find whales and dolphins. We passed through several hundreds of Great and Cory’s shearwaters sitting on the surface near the Lighthouse and headed ESE towards one of our well known dolphin areas and readily found a small group. While viewing a small group of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin (6-12), we saw a faint blow  0.2 miles ahead. This was a humpback whale, a small one with horrendous propeller scars across the remnants of it’s dorsal fin – another whale hit by a vessel. This was was spending long times down, most likely feeding on the sand eels at/in the seafloor. While we stayed with this whale, we were joined by several minke whales, a hammerhead shark, and a group of 60-90 Common bottlenose dolphins. We decided to head off and look for others and as we got a few miles away, the young humpback breached 5 times, and we went back to spend a little more time with it.

We headed back to the dock, elated and worried about this poor injured whale. Attempts to identify it are on going.

1 humpback whale

2 minke whales

5-10 Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins

60-90 Common bottlenose dolphins

1 Hammerhead shark

~350 Great shearwaters

~400 Cory’s shearwaters

2-3 Sooty shearwaters

20 Wilson’s storm petrels

Photos soon at https://drartiek-cresli.smugmug.com/CRESLI-2025-Whale-Watches/2025-09-03-Montauk-whale-watc