10 Interesting facts about the blue whale

Take a look at the gigantic size of these Blue Whales, they are magnificent! This beauty was spotted yesterday. 🐳🫶🏻 The Blue Whale is the largest mammal on the planet 🌎 🐳 The longest blue whale ever recorded was a 108-foot adult female in Antarctica! Blue whales in the Southern Hemisphere reach lengths of 90-100 feet , but their Northern Hemisphere counterparts are smaller, on average 75 to 80 feet and these whales can weigh over 100 tons. The blue whale is thought to feed almost exclusivel

Blue Whale Mother & Calf

BLUE WHALES! 🐋Every year we wait in anticipation for our first blue whale sighting! Some years, they’re here for months on end. Others, we’re only gifted a few sightings of these endangered whales. August - October can be a wonderful time to see the largest animal on the planet in the channel, so we’re hoping this is a great sign of what’s to come! Video by Adam Ernster Photography | Condor Express Whale Watching

Exceptional Blue Whale encounters today!! It’s totally rare to have this species behave so friendly. Typically Blue Whales are very focused on feeding and not too interested in coming over to say “hi”. But this whale made repeated passes directly under us! Please remember this is with the boat’s engines off and not moving. A few times a year we get to see whales initiate these special encounters. Total sightings today were 4 Blue Whales which included a mom and baby pair.⁣⁣⁣⁣ Video by Capt Ryan⁣

Sound on to hear what a blue whale sounds like filling her lungs before vanishing back into the depths with her calf. Breath is something many of us take for granted, often not realizing that between 50 to 80% of Earth’s oxygen comes the ocean— specifically from phytoplankton, marine plant life, and algae. Great cetaceans like blue whales play a key role in supporting these invaluable ecosystems, providing critical nutrients through their excrement across the water column throughout their vast m

Blue Whales that are about double the size of our boat, just amazing! 🐳✨🐳✨🐳 Video by Saxon | Oceanside Whale Watching

What sounds do blue whales make?