\u201cIt\u2019s tough to find a good weather window this week!\u201d rants Ren\u00e9 Roy, collaborator for the Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS). Between the waves, the rain and the shroud of fog that seems to be taking up residence in the St. Lawrence Estuary, observers have been facing a number of challenges. But their patience has on occasion paid wonderful dividends.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Ren\u00e9 takes advantage of the relatively mild weather to set sail between Matane<\/strong> and Pointe-des-Monts\u00a0<\/strong>and spots… his first blue whale of the season! \u201cIt was impossible to identify… We were far offshore in a thick fog and heavy boat traffic, so I couldn\u2019t really spend much time with it,\u201d he confides. But oh how exciting to witness the return of these incredible giants to the Estuary. A few hours later, near Matane, he is treated to another magical spectacle: the migration of a hundred or so belugas to waters farther upstream. For half an hour, the St. Lawrence is speckled with white backs as far as the eye can see. It is rare to observe such an important congregation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIt\u2019s tough to find a good weather window this week!\u201d rants Ren\u00e9 Roy, collaborator for the Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS). Between the waves, the rain and the shroud of fog that seems to be taking up residence in the St. Lawrence Estuary, observers have been facing a number of challenges. But their patience has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":54050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observation-of-the-week"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n