In New York, the return of the whales
September 27, 2017
Absent for more than a century, the baleen cetaceans are returning to the shore of the Big Apple, the result of efforts to clean up the waters, which has enabled the re-emergence of an entire ecosystem. Reportage
Suddenly, she jumped out of the water, made a spectacular jump back, before falling back into a huge splash. On the boat, the excitement is at its peak. She had shown us a tip of her dorsal fin, then her tail, by dive and come back to the surface to swallow schools of fish. It was only after a good thirty minutes that she offered herself entirely to us, creating an effect of surprise. That day, in the beating sun in the middle of September, the hundred people on board the American Princess were treated to an incredible spectacle: five humpback whales observed in four hours. Without forgetting some dolphins.
The scene does not take place anywhere, but in New York. Off Long Island in the Queens district. It is from Breezy Point, on the Rockaway Peninsula, that Gotham Whale offers tours to go whale watching. It has been doing so since 2011, when humpback whales gradually began to return to the region, after more than a century of absence.
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