New whales continue to arrive in the St. Lawrence and marine diversity is matched only by the palette of colours in the foliage. While the leaves are ablaze with yellow, orange and red, the water is punctuated by the dark backs of North Atlantic right whales between the Mingan Archipelago and Sept-\u00celes. Meanwhile, the white and yellow flanks of white-sided dolphins streak across the horizon in Pointe-des-Monts. One thing the Gasp\u00e9 Bay and Franquelin sectors had in common this week was the presence of a wide array of cetaceans! Humpback whales are still present in large numbers, and two well-known fin whales were also identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New whales continue to arrive in the St. Lawrence and marine diversity is matched only by the palette of colours in the foliage. While the leaves are ablaze with yellow, orange and red, the water is punctuated by the dark backs of North Atlantic right whales between the Mingan Archipelago and Sept-\u00celes. Meanwhile, the white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12839,"featured_media":63869,"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-63912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observation-of-the-week"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n