An interesting day with a number of different whale tails captured on film, including one with approximately 50% white and black, and one particularly clean tail with hardly any black at all.

A Humpback whale tail with half black and half white

Water drips off a Humpback whale’s tail off Broome’s Cable Beach

Falcate or hooked fin, a natural variation in the dorsal fin on a Humpback whale

The scalloped trailing edge on a Humpback whale tail

Whale tail with damage on the side of the flukes

A Wilson’s Storm Petrel or “Jesus bird”

A very clean whale tail with hardly any black markings

Indo-pacific Bottlenose dolphins off Broome’s Cable Beach