PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — August 1, 2014 — "It's not your average camp."
Ventisca and her humpback calf stole the show Thursday off Race Point. Not by the typical humpback acrobatics and flipper-slapping, but just by lolling on the surface, as though napping together, close to the Dolphin Fleet whale-watch boat.
"How cool was that?" fishery biologist Christin Khan said to one of her students. Khan brought seven boys along with her on the trip, part of the first "The Biology and Behavior of Whales" summer class at Falmouth Academy.
"It was fabulous," Dario D'Urso, 12, of Miami, Florida, said. "It was moving a lot slower than I thought it would."
Around them, the other 270 or so people on the boat were pretty much saying the same thing, cooing as though seeing an infant, even though the infant humpback probably weighed in at close to a ton. The calf was probably born between January and April, and was still nursing, Carole Carson, the Dolphin Fleet's director of research and education, said over the sound system as the boat floated without the engine running near the pair.
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