RE: [Paddlewise] Kayak Problems

"Doug Lloyd" <douglloyd_at_shaw.ca> wrote:

>>>>>>I tried to tell Gordin that all that NDK/SKUK talk was just hype and to
buy
a real kayak, but no, he had to go and buy and now cry...

Speaking of suing the ocean, anyone know why all these grey whales are dying
off our coast? I certainly know it wasn't Gordin hitting them on the
head.<<<<<<




A simialar question was posed on the news last night. Apparently, the fifth
Gray Whale was found dead in Puget Sound the other day. Several days ago one
news program had footage of a pod of Orcas violently ramming and attacking a
Gray Whale in Puget Sound someplace. Apparently a pack of non-resident Orcas
(eats things besides salmon--kayakers with good taste beware) Oare in the
sound now.  My understanding is that Killer Whales find Gray Whale tongue very
tasty but don't bother with eating the rest of the whale. I don't suppose Gray
Whales live real long after being seriously mauled with body blows and then
de-tongued. Somebody needs to have a talk with those non-PC Orcas about their
wasteful ways. As a kid I saw a Gray Whale nearly stranded in the surf on the
Washington Coast. While wondering aloud why it was so close to the beach my
question was suddenly answered when a six foot tall black dorsal fine stuck
(at about 45 degrees) out of a large breaker peaking to break just a little
further out from shore from the nearly beached Gray.



There may be other reasons for the die off, but I'll put my money on those
residents of Canada that came down here looking for some tongue. Where did you
say you hail from Doug?



Hope those Orcas don't discover kayakers are crunchy (or rubbery) on the
outside but tasty on the inside. There is that missing kayaker (and as far as
I know never found) off Lime Kiln Point severak years ago. He had been last
seen paddling with some Orcas around. George wanted to write it up as possibly
the first known Orca attack on a kayaker but I pointed out given the lack of
any further evidence that was a pretty wild conjecture.
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