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Weeks of overcast weather have given way to sunny days, pink skies, and a St. Lawrence River whose colour shifts between cobalt blue and silver depending on the time of day. Impressive herds of belugas punctuate the Estuary in white and grey, a humpback whale visits the mouth of the Saguenay Fjord, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence teems with marine life, with a group of killer whales<\/a> (in French) making an incursion into the Basse-C\u00f4te-Nord<\/strong> region, not far from Mecatina Island<\/strong>, while blue, fin, humpback, and North Atlantic right whales have all been present between Sept-\u00celes<\/strong> and Minganie<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weeks of overcast weather have given way to sunny days, pink skies, and a St. Lawrence River whose colour shifts between cobalt blue and silver depending on the time of day. Impressive herds of belugas punctuate the Estuary in white and grey, a humpback whale visits the mouth of the Saguenay Fjord, and the Gulf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12858,"featured_media":76529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observation-of-the-week"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCetaceans that Light Up the Waters - Baleines en direct<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Weeks of overcast weather have given way to sunny days, pink skies, and a St. Lawrence River whose colour shifts between cobalt blue and silver depending\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/des-cetaces-qui-illuminent-les-flots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cetaceans that Light Up the Waters - 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