After another bout of rough weather, we were able to head back out on the water today. We headed up the eastern side of Jeffreys Ledge and then down the western side. We found a bunch of humpback whales, including Filament and Victim, and a few fin whales and harbor porpoise, but we only got a fleeting glimpse of a right whale.  We only had 5 miles left until we came to the top of the eastern leg when we saw a right whale about 2 miles away.  We continued to the spot where we saw it go down on a dive, but we never saw it again.

We waited at least 30 minutes for it to resurface in that area but must have lost it in the glare. We were happy to see a right whale was still in the area, but we were disappointed that we were not able to get a photo ID of it to determine if it was a whale that we had seen on previous surveys or if a new whale was moving into the area. As we pointed out in our last blog, a large number of whales were see far to the east of Jeffreys during an aerial survey last week, so it will be interesting to see if some of the previously seen whales will move back onto Jeffreys or if possibly a new wave of whales will move onto the Ledge.  Tomorrow looks like another good day for a survey so we will look in other areas on Jeffreys to see if we can find a few more right whales.