On Thursday, December 2, 2010, The Sapphire Princess cruise ship anchored offshore of Cabo San Lucas, and eager folks were brought onshore to join various excursions for the day. I joined the "El Arco & Coastal Cruise" two-hour catamaran cruise around Cabo San Lucas.
We received reports of three humpback whales being sighted not far away, to the southwest (a mild surprise, since it was a bit early for the humpback season). Our boat (Boat 2) joined another (Boat 1) in attending the whales.
Upon returning to the Sapphire Princess, we heard reports that a number of other folks on a snorkeling excursion had also seen three humpback whales. It's still a little unclear to me whether these were the same three humpback whales (likely, but I thought the snorkelers were busy to the east, not the west). Nevertheless, one of the snorkelers (Melissa from B.C. Canada) showed me awesome video she took of her much-closer encounter (which also showed a boat in the distance - perhaps Boat 2?). I hope to locate that video soon.
My two videos are inferior to Melissa's (because we were a bit far away and looking into the sun glint), but for the record, here are these two videos.
Location is approximately 22 degrees, 51.3 minutes latitude; 109 degrees, 56.5 minutes longitude.
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