PORT O'CONNOR
PELAGIC Trip Report II - July 27, 1996 Aboard the Chip XI
Report Transcribed from 1997 Texas Deepwater Pelagic Trips Newsletter
Copyrighted By: Dwight Peake and Mark Elwonger
Sperm Whales nearly stole the show on two of our three trips in 1996. In July
participants were treated to good views of a rafting cow and calf and members
of a pod were breaching completely out of the water.
The July trip afforded looks at dozens of Sooty Terns with a few Bridled Terns,
a half-dozen Band-rumped Storm Petrels a couple of Cory’s and Audubon’s Shearwaters,
and a Masked Booby.
