Minke Whale at the top of Skye
A slide show…”oh no” I hear you cry, still, I know its not as impressive as video but I only had a stills camera to hand when suddenly this Minke whale appeared alongside. It was feeding of a pool of Krill and seemed oblivious to our presence. I thought these stills were well worth posting as a slide show, so that others could enjoy the whale moment. On recent charters we have been lucky to see a pod of three Minke – mother and baby swimming at about a distance of 500ft away and then when we stopped to look, father appeared in front of us and very close to the boat at about 30ft away. He obviously wanted to let us know that we were close enough to his family and that this was as close as we should go. We watched for about 15 minutes and he stayed between us and the family all the time we watched. It was really awesome to experience. Eventually we turned to go and almost ran straight into a school of dolophins. What a day. Of course no video and no stills to prove what happened. You’ll have to take my word.
