MORNING SENTINEL • June 3, 2024
If the wind doesn’t take your breath away, the whales will. I learned this while on the catamaran that took our curious group on a half-day trip into Canadian waters, 60 miles into the Gulf of Maine. We’d have a chance to see something extraordinary — whales! Soon there was movement in the water around us. It got quiet — we waited. People gasped as a humpback whale made a huge splash off the bow. Humpback whales in the Northern Hemisphere reach an average length of 49 to 52 feet. The average weight of a mature adult is 50,000 to 80,000 pounds. ~ Rich Abrahamson