We went whale watching today. The boat left hamilton Harbour at 10 AM and we didn't get back until 6 PM. Compared to whale watching tours in recent days, it took longer to find soem whales, and we had to go out much further to find them. At the furtherest point, we were more than 15 miles (25 kilometres) from shore, and Bermuda was no longer visible. It was a windy day and the seas were rough through much of the trip. A number of people become sea-sick, but Michelle and I were fine.
By 3pm, the tour operators were stunned by the lack of whales and began to turn around to head back, when, finally, one of them spotted a whale. After ten minutes, others were spotted in a different direction. As we started towars those, Michelle notices some more spouts to our left -- a lot of them. So we turned in that direction. From that point forward we saw numerous whales, sometimes in groups of 3, 4, 5, or more. It was well worth the wait. We took some photos and videos, but many of them didn't turn out that well. We will post some of them soon. The whales were humpback whales, varying in length from 30-45 feet, weighing up to 40 tons each.
Finally, it was time to head back. We were so far out to sea, that it took 2 full hours to get back on dry land.