Steve Davis wrote: > Suddenly the whale, now identified as > a grey whale and no longer looking very small at all, surfaced 10 metres off > my port bow. After my heart kicked back in I managed to snap off a few > photos. To my amazement this continued for another hour. Us drifting along, > the whale surfacing always on the port bow, always 10 to 15 metres away. Couple years ago in mid-June, there was a good-size gray whale doodling around __inside__ Benson, showing no concern about kayakers in the near vicinity. Could be the same whale, inasmuch the one I saw was probably a "resident." -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Apr 04 2002 - 11:36:17 PST
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