A white whale baby....

Sometimes a southern right whale baby is not dark, but white with only a few pigmentations. According to local people with many years of experience with the whales there is around 1 white / 100 whale babies. Quite rare to find them in the huge Gulf of Valdes! We had the chance to spend many hours with a white baby and its mother, the baby very peaceful, sometimes curious, sometimes a bit shy, but always very beautiful to watch, especially when we could see it approaching in the clear water to dive under our boat...




approaching big mama whale...

...to try to climb on her back to rest and play!



A white baby southern right whale has also been seen in Findler's Bay, Australia... See the article here: http://news-world.us/index.php/2008/09/26/a-rare-albino-southern-right-whale-calf/