Re: [Paddlewise] Seals & fish

From: sylvio larmarche <wgarden_at_cyberlink.bc.ca>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 03:22:26 -0700
Davic said...
.......
>    We were camping south of Hot Springs Island when we started noticing
>occasional sharp reports coming from the water, sometimes from the south,
>sometimes from the west. Looking around, I could see no boats, no nothing,
>in fact. Suddenly, whap! off to the left but when I looked in that direction
>there was nothing to be seen. After watchfully waiting a bit longer, I saw a
>seal porpoise up, dive and whap!, his tail hit the water with a great smack.
>
>    We were to see this over and over again, both there, from our camp by
>Hot Springs, Marcos Island, and other spots. I concluded that this was a
>fishing anomaly of QC seals, one that I had never seen or heard before in
>either British Columbia (Johnstone Strait, Broken Group) or USA
>(California).
>
>    Did you notice anything like this when you were there Dave? Has anyone
>in this ng come across this behavior, either in the QC or elsewhere?


This sounds like when we encoutered the whale shark and 2 giant manta rays,
last winter in the Phillipines...Took a couple hours   to figure out what
it was...Then we finnally saw them...They were creaming jelly fish off the
toop od the waters...Even wiht 5 yaks going in circles in the area, them
critters would still breach the surface all around us, even coming inches
from us [ many times to each yaks]...

Yours naturally

sylvio  lamarche
Wycliffe organic gardens
& Exotic locales all over the globe




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