March 1 on board "Golden Bean" Galapagos to Guayaquil, Ecuador bird appeared before breakfast shortly after this. After breakfast saw 2 petrels in the wake, both of which soon disappeared. Between 8 and 9 I saw only a group of 8 and 12 small porpoises with a high dorsal fin and a pale head and flukes: . These were seen before 8:30. Quit after them and went in until 10, then out to the bow and fell asleep. Woke up c. 10:30 when the cadets pointed out a short tailed Red billed Tropicbird flying over the boat and saw 2 Oceanodorus petrels together in front of the bow about 11. Nothing from 11 to 11:30, then ate lunch. At noon there was a large dark unspotted petrel and a ? O. caelo following the boat. From the bow saw 15+ greyish, apparently unmarked porpoises with a high cycle-shaped dorsal fin D. The tail was also very long. Shortly after a whale 25-30 ft long, which did not blow appeared off the bow and came fairly close (100-150 ft.). Flukes marked: olive, high sharp fin. pale ashy grey. wave over blow hole or The flukes never came out & were dark - from nearly on top it had a broad pointed head like a baleen whale, and pale (cheek a baleen whale, and pale shown at angle) About 1 (nothing in between: 1/2 hour) a whale