Mira the whale spotted after three years

A number of whales have been spotted in the idyllic seaside town of Hermanus in recent days.

Southern Right Charters (SRC), a Hermanus-based whale watching and chartering company, spotted Mira, after three years, over the weekend. The whale was last spotted in 2017, and made a very welcome return to the seaside town on Saturday, August 1.

“Mira is an adult female southern right whale with a large distinctive white marking on her dorsal. She was last spotted by the Southern Right Charters crew in September 2017 with a calf,” the chartering company said via its Facebook page. “Since starting our SRC whale re-sighting program, this is our first official re-sighting.”

Mira was spotted with a new calf, which indicates a healthy birthing and calving period of three years.

“She has a white ‘blaze’ stretch from behind the blowholes with a large white patch moving into a narrow white patch near her tail and white blaze on her underside,” the company said.

Mira the whale was spotted off the shores of Hermanus over the weekend. (Source: SRC/Facebook)

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