"Injured Humpback Whale"

We head out from the marina with calmer weather than over the past few days. Bernie has visited us at the office and said that the only whales spotted were half way between Gull Rock and the Safe Water Marker. We head out hoping that we can find these whales in side King George Sound as the swell from the storms from several days ago, is still running out side of the sound. As we get close to the Safe Water Marker, Bernie tells us that the whale is close bye but very quiet. Then the whale surfaces. WOW what are those white markings covering most of its back. This whale is very quiet but we spend some time trying to get close enough to get a good photograph of these markings. "Oh no" We get a little closer and it looks like this whale has been attacked as their is a large amount of skin missing down this whales back. One of our passengers gets photos that under closer scrutiny we see that their are even huge holes in the whales tail. We call the local CALM office and report this whale. Peter Collins tells us that he will launch their boat with in 30 minutes and come to get a closer look. We leave this whale and head over to 2 humpback whales over towards Ledge Beach. We find them and passengers are encouraged to try and catch that picture of water dripping from the tail as the whale lifts its tail from the water and shows us the individual markings underneath. These whales are moving in no set pattern so staying with them at times is a little hard. We leave to cruise past Seal Rock, Whale World, Frenchman Bay, Good Beach and we stopped off to chat to a local squid fisherman to see what he had caught.
"Master of the vessel Paul Guest"