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From: Tom <tombrooklyn_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 10:45:40 -0700 (PDT)
> 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

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