Andrew said >I just got back last weekend from a trip to Barkley Sound with a couple of >friends. We paddled from Torquart Bay to Bamfield. We by-passed the Broken >Group and went through the Pinkertons and the Deer Group. ... on our last >evening after >setting up camp we saw a gray whale, it came into our little bay and it did >something that I have only seen humpbacks and orcas do before, it breached. >I am sure it is not that rare but it was the first time I had seen it and >it >was quite impressive. Hi Andrew, Was this towards the Northeast end of the Deer Group? If so, I wonder if there's something about the underwater topography there that encourages this behaviour, as it's the one and only place I've seen full breech as well. A few years back I was on a kayak trip with three others. I heard the whale sighing before I could make him out against the sun's reflection. I told the woman who was paddling nearest me to rap gently on her hull (I've been told it sends out sound that helps make the whale aware of your presence so they won't surface under you.) After about five minutes of this, she's giving me the old raised eyebrow and wondering if there is a whale at all or if this is like sending the new kid on the job to get a left-handed screwdriver or striped paint. Just on time to save my credibility, the whale breeches like a sub doing an emergency surface drill about two hundred yards away. Amazing! Philip Torrens N49°16' W123°06' IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Due to high Spam volume, my e-mail filters are set to accept mail only from known addresses. If you reply to me using an address other than the one that I sent this message to, your message will be "trashed" without me ever seeing it. If you would like to send me e-mail from another address, please reply to me via the address I sent this mail to, advising me of the address you would like me to add to my "accept" list. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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