It was a nice overcast day, no wind, with grays and whites and dark colors all around. We saw a couple of minke blows 2 or 3 miles away and launched our small boat to go see.Typically we see one or two minke whales at a time. But when we started to get close, all of a sudden they came up en masse, and there were about 40. We were shocked. None of us had ever seen a group that large. Amazingly, they were being very social, surfacing right next to each other and rolling almost on top of each other, behaving in a way none of us had ever seen.
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