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Blue Whales/Whale

Blue whales are the largest animal that have ever lived, reaching up to 100ft. long at times most of the ones in the Santa Barbara Channel only reach lengths of around 80 feet max. They actually have a grayish skin but glows a brilliant blue just beneath the surface of the water. Amazing for an animal as large as it is, they eat one of the smallest meals, (plankton and krill), they also are a baleen whale.
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Two Blue Whales on the surface, preparing to dive for another feeding in the nutrient rich waters off the Channel Islands.
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Two Blue Whales on the surface, preparing to dive for another feeding in the nutrient rich waters off the Channel Islands.

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  • Blue Whales are a baleen whale, notice the two blowholes indicative of all baleen whales.
  • Water trickles off the tailflukes of this Blue Whale on its terminal dive.
  • Going vertical this Blue Whale is going on a deep dive. The dimples on the skin could be scarring from Cookiecutter sharks!
  • A Blue waterfall.
  • Blue Whale surfaces, taking in large amounts of air before it dives.
  • A Blue Whale cruises the nutrient rich waters just offshore off the west end of Santa Cruz Island, CA.
  • A Blue Whale traveling just past Santa Rosa Island, CA.
  • Blue Whale slips below the surface, staying down for well over 20 minutes and beyond.
  • One Blue Whale dives while one surfaces right next each other.
  • A close up look at a Blue Whale that has visited the Santa Barbara Channel for numerous years. It has been scarred by a possible exploding harpoon, but managed to get away, the scar goes clear to the other side, this is possibly the exit. When it breaths it sounds very hollow. But this animal is doing great as can be!!
  • Amazing body size but yet a small tail fluke.
  • A close up look at a Blue Whale that has visited the Santa Barbara Channel for numerous years. It has been scarred by a possible exploding harpoon, but managed to get away, the scar goes clear to the other side, this is possibly the entrance. When it breaths it sounds very hollow. But this animal is doing great as can be!!
  • Going vertical this Blue Whale is going on a deep dive.
  • Blue Whale lifting its tail flukes just out of the water.
  • Blue whale spouting as a large container ship travels through the Santa Barbara Channel. Ships played a major role in the summer of 2007 when three Blue Whales washed ashore with definitive shipstrike injuries.
  • This Blue Whale has tail flukes that represent more an airline than that of a whale.
  • Two Blue Whales on the surface, preparing to dive for another feeding in the nutrient rich waters off the Channel Islands.
  • A Blue Whale lifts its 15 ft across tail flukes out of the water to go on its terminal dive.
  • Tail fluke of this Blue Whale has rounded tips from an encounter with Orcas most likels.
  • Blue Whale surfaces showing its upper and lower jaws before descending into the depths.
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