> 20Oct 2000 From: "Rev. Bob Carter" Subject: a whale of a day > ...they (Humpback Whales) surface just behing us... about 40 yards from us. >Then ...passing about 20 yards in front of us... >... only three boat lengths in front of me. >...this whale was checking us out! >... Then the whale... began to swim towards us...the whale got about one boat length away... It strikes me as quite risky to be paddling amongst whales. Equivilent perhaps to diving amongst sharks. Would this be a fair comparison? I know next to nothing about whale behavior. Tom Dowling *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Oct 22 2000 - 12:02:10 PDT
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