{"id":312123,"date":"2025-11-27T12:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312123\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:06:14","slug":"spotting-pi-the-whale-more-exciting-than-christmas-in-isles-of-scilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312123\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotting Pi the whale ‘more exciting than Christmas’ in Isles of Scilly"},"content":{"rendered":"

A humpback whale called Pi is thrilling locals on the Isles of Scilly who see its annual visit as a winter highlight.<\/p>\n

A humpback whale called Pi is thrilling locals on the Isles of Scilly who see its annual visit as a winter highlight. <\/p>\n

For islanders, spotting Pi has become a tradition, and this year photographer Inga Drazniece captured the moment on camera.<\/p>\n

“I need to pinch myself sometimes still,” said Inga, who works at a jewellers and spends her free time photographing the islands’ wildlife. <\/p>\n

“Everyone’s getting really excited. It’s more exciting than Christmas, at least for me.”<\/p>\n

The Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust said Pi had been visiting the islands in winter over several years, including in 2023 and 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ms Drazniece and her friends set out to find Pi after hearing of sightings near the Daymark, a landmark on St Martin’s. <\/p>\n

“We sat there with tea in a flask, the girls had binoculars, I had my drone,” she said. “It was cold, but it was nice to just watch the seas and waves.<\/p>\n

“I started to carefully watch the old waves hitting the rocks, and this one didn’t behave like in a pattern.<\/p>\n

“So I start to lower my drone, and then I start to see two fins. I could recognise them straight away. It’s fantastic, it’s amazing to see him, it’s lovely.”<\/p>\n

The humpback was given the name Pi because of a distinctive marking on its fin.<\/p>\n

“We call it Pi because by the hump on the right side, there is P sign,” said Ms Drazniece. <\/p>\n

“Once you know it, you can spot it really well.”<\/p>\n

She added that other whales had also been seen around the islands, with more appearing every year.<\/p>\n

Islanders hope Pi will perform a flip soon, which would reveal its gender, but for now it remains unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A humpback whale called Pi is thrilling locals on the Isles of Scilly who see its annual visit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-312123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}