Since the late 1990s the Bay of Biscay has emerged as one of the world’s best Cetacean viewing areas. The ferries than run from Portsmouth in the UK to Bilbao in Spain spend the last third of their journey running along deep canyons that are teeming with sea monsters in the summer. I’ve only taken the trip once but, in the first 12 hours out of Spain back to the UK in August 1998 I saw False Killer Whales (unusual), many Fin Whales, several Sei Whales, many Long-finned Pilot Whales, many Striped Dolphins, an Orca, a couple of Northern Bottle nosed Whales and a Cuviers Beaked Whale (that cruised right past the ferry). And that is by no means an unusual trip.
