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An hour later

An hour and 3 or 3-1/2 miles later, we found a bigger hole. Remember how far the head was from the hole in the earlier picture? Notice how much they have enlarged the hole now. They have not moved the head. They have made the hole that much bigger. At this point there was a lifeguard present, and he told us that it was a 47-foot long Fin whale. I later found that the Fin whale is the second largest whale. Only the blue whale is larger. They can grow to 88 feet long, but the average adult is about 65 feet. They are 20 feet long at birth and grow to about 35 feet by one year of age, so this 47 footer would have been a juvenile. They are found in all the oceans of the earth, but mostly in temperate or polar waters, not so often in the tropics. (That's your whale trivia for today.)