A long day! Up at 5:30 a.m., off the beach at 7 a.m., on beaked whales by 8:15 a.m. First a group of six or seven, including two mother calf pairs. Lost them during a long dive. Then late morning, another two mother calf pairs. A short tow with them before they dove, but no samples collected. Threatened by a storm, we headed offshore and north, and found a pair of beaked whales, who stayed with us for over an hour. Roz sighted a defecation, and Scott collected a portion of it (using the method described in this previous post), so the first sample is in hand (so to speak). Wind picked up, so we headed in arriving home around 5 p.m. More tomorrow!






-Scott, Roz, and Kathleen