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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:54:41 -0800, Jim wrote: jps wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:09:27 -0600, Vic Smith wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:51:30 -0800, Jim wrote: Went out yesterday to watch the whales feeding. I was told about this a couple of days ago but didn't go until yesterday. It was amazing. I've seen lots of whales, but never like this. They are usually migrating, not feeding like these were. There were a million sea birds, so many krill the sea turned silver. The ocean sounded like it was carbonated. Then there were groups of whales spouting as they cruised the surface feeding. No spectacular diving with the flukes following it under, they just rolled on their sides and ate their fill. My fish finder showed the sea to be a solid mass of fish, hundreds of feet deep. I've never seen so much sea life in one spot. There were several of these spots, by the way. You could see that the whales were herding the krill into the center of a big circle, a couple of miles across. Must have looked like a scene out of whaling 150 years ago. You could almost imagine the mast head lookout on a whaling ship seeing exactly the same scene. I've seen many whales, but they are usually cruising along, never like this. Not my video, mine has to be edited, and there's a lot to edit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YtC-VagE4Y Whales. Heavy duty. Like looking at the Grand Canyon. Hard to comprehend what you're seeing. Like flying into Vegas looking at the hotels out the window. You haven't a clue as to their scale until you're on the street. 100 ft and how many tons? Holy crap. It's easy to imagine their size when they surface right next to your boat. I was getting a bit uneasy after see them busy feeding and not necessarily watching out for me. Talk about bad breath! And a lot of it. Is there a law about proximity? Up here if you're caught getting close the fines are meaningful. What sort of bad breath? Anything to compare it to? It's awesome that you had the opportunity. I know the feeling of looking down into the water and seeing a big ship's propeller through the haze. It's other worldly. Seeing animals that size must be willies inducing. There is a law about proximity, but the whale wasn't observing it. Interestingly the boat that went right through the middle, between whales, was a police boat. Fish breath. Compared to a lot of dead fish, I'd guess. |
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:36:57 -0800, Jim wrote:
jps wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:54:41 -0800, Jim wrote: jps wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:09:27 -0600, Vic Smith wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:51:30 -0800, Jim wrote: Went out yesterday to watch the whales feeding. I was told about this a couple of days ago but didn't go until yesterday. It was amazing. I've seen lots of whales, but never like this. They are usually migrating, not feeding like these were. There were a million sea birds, so many krill the sea turned silver. The ocean sounded like it was carbonated. Then there were groups of whales spouting as they cruised the surface feeding. No spectacular diving with the flukes following it under, they just rolled on their sides and ate their fill. My fish finder showed the sea to be a solid mass of fish, hundreds of feet deep. I've never seen so much sea life in one spot. There were several of these spots, by the way. You could see that the whales were herding the krill into the center of a big circle, a couple of miles across. Must have looked like a scene out of whaling 150 years ago. You could almost imagine the mast head lookout on a whaling ship seeing exactly the same scene. I've seen many whales, but they are usually cruising along, never like this. Not my video, mine has to be edited, and there's a lot to edit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YtC-VagE4Y Whales. Heavy duty. Like looking at the Grand Canyon. Hard to comprehend what you're seeing. Like flying into Vegas looking at the hotels out the window. You haven't a clue as to their scale until you're on the street. 100 ft and how many tons? Holy crap. It's easy to imagine their size when they surface right next to your boat. I was getting a bit uneasy after see them busy feeding and not necessarily watching out for me. Talk about bad breath! And a lot of it. Is there a law about proximity? Up here if you're caught getting close the fines are meaningful. What sort of bad breath? Anything to compare it to? It's awesome that you had the opportunity. I know the feeling of looking down into the water and seeing a big ship's propeller through the haze. It's other worldly. Seeing animals that size must be willies inducing. There is a law about proximity, but the whale wasn't observing it. Interestingly the boat that went right through the middle, between whales, was a police boat. Fish breath. Compared to a lot of dead fish, I'd guess. Why does the news that the police boat went right through the middle not surprise me. Immediately thought of Lu Powell. Hurry up and edit the video so we can see. Doesn't matter if it's not Nat Geo standards, just a glimpse would be cool! |
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:36:57 -0800, Jim wrote: jps wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:54:41 -0800, Jim wrote: jps wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:09:27 -0600, Vic Smith wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:51:30 -0800, Jim wrote: Went out yesterday to watch the whales feeding. I was told about this a couple of days ago but didn't go until yesterday. It was amazing. I've seen lots of whales, but never like this. They are usually migrating, not feeding like these were. There were a million sea birds, so many krill the sea turned silver. The ocean sounded like it was carbonated. Then there were groups of whales spouting as they cruised the surface feeding. No spectacular diving with the flukes following it under, they just rolled on their sides and ate their fill. My fish finder showed the sea to be a solid mass of fish, hundreds of feet deep. I've never seen so much sea life in one spot. There were several of these spots, by the way. You could see that the whales were herding the krill into the center of a big circle, a couple of miles across. Must have looked like a scene out of whaling 150 years ago. You could almost imagine the mast head lookout on a whaling ship seeing exactly the same scene. I've seen many whales, but they are usually cruising along, never like this. Not my video, mine has to be edited, and there's a lot to edit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YtC-VagE4Y Whales. Heavy duty. Like looking at the Grand Canyon. Hard to comprehend what you're seeing. Like flying into Vegas looking at the hotels out the window. You haven't a clue as to their scale until you're on the street. 100 ft and how many tons? Holy crap. It's easy to imagine their size when they surface right next to your boat. I was getting a bit uneasy after see them busy feeding and not necessarily watching out for me. Talk about bad breath! And a lot of it. Is there a law about proximity? Up here if you're caught getting close the fines are meaningful. What sort of bad breath? Anything to compare it to? It's awesome that you had the opportunity. I know the feeling of looking down into the water and seeing a big ship's propeller through the haze. It's other worldly. Seeing animals that size must be willies inducing. There is a law about proximity, but the whale wasn't observing it. Interestingly the boat that went right through the middle, between whales, was a police boat. Fish breath. Compared to a lot of dead fish, I'd guess. Why does the news that the police boat went right through the middle not surprise me. Immediately thought of Lu Powell. Hurry up and edit the video so we can see. Doesn't matter if it's not Nat Geo standards, just a glimpse would be cool! Leaving the harbor, the same police boat passed to my port side, throwing a huge wake. I had to take evasive action to not get rolled very much. They were not on a call, they came back out a few minutes later. I'll put the video on my Youtube channel when I get it finished. It's really difficult to get something of the scope of a pod of whales feeding on video. That's why people who can do it make a lot of money. |
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:03:41 -0800, Jim wrote:
jps wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:36:57 -0800, Jim wrote: jps wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:54:41 -0800, Jim wrote: jps wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:09:27 -0600, Vic Smith wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:51:30 -0800, Jim wrote: Went out yesterday to watch the whales feeding. I was told about this a couple of days ago but didn't go until yesterday. It was amazing. I've seen lots of whales, but never like this. They are usually migrating, not feeding like these were. There were a million sea birds, so many krill the sea turned silver. The ocean sounded like it was carbonated. Then there were groups of whales spouting as they cruised the surface feeding. No spectacular diving with the flukes following it under, they just rolled on their sides and ate their fill. My fish finder showed the sea to be a solid mass of fish, hundreds of feet deep. I've never seen so much sea life in one spot. There were several of these spots, by the way. You could see that the whales were herding the krill into the center of a big circle, a couple of miles across. Must have looked like a scene out of whaling 150 years ago. You could almost imagine the mast head lookout on a whaling ship seeing exactly the same scene. I've seen many whales, but they are usually cruising along, never like this. Not my video, mine has to be edited, and there's a lot to edit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YtC-VagE4Y Whales. Heavy duty. Like looking at the Grand Canyon. Hard to comprehend what you're seeing. Like flying into Vegas looking at the hotels out the window. You haven't a clue as to their scale until you're on the street. 100 ft and how many tons? Holy crap. It's easy to imagine their size when they surface right next to your boat. I was getting a bit uneasy after see them busy feeding and not necessarily watching out for me. Talk about bad breath! And a lot of it. Is there a law about proximity? Up here if you're caught getting close the fines are meaningful. What sort of bad breath? Anything to compare it to? It's awesome that you had the opportunity. I know the feeling of looking down into the water and seeing a big ship's propeller through the haze. It's other worldly. Seeing animals that size must be willies inducing. There is a law about proximity, but the whale wasn't observing it. Interestingly the boat that went right through the middle, between whales, was a police boat. Fish breath. Compared to a lot of dead fish, I'd guess. Why does the news that the police boat went right through the middle not surprise me. Immediately thought of Lu Powell. Hurry up and edit the video so we can see. Doesn't matter if it's not Nat Geo standards, just a glimpse would be cool! Leaving the harbor, the same police boat passed to my port side, throwing a huge wake. I had to take evasive action to not get rolled very much. They were not on a call, they came back out a few minutes later. I'll put the video on my Youtube channel when I get it finished. It's really difficult to get something of the scope of a pod of whales feeding on video. That's why people who can do it make a lot of money. Understood. |
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![]() "Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in message ... On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:51:30 -0800, Jim wrote: There were a million sea birds, so many krill the sea turned silver. The ocean sounded like it was carbonated. Then there were groups of whales spouting as they cruised the surface feeding. No spectacular diving with the flukes following it under, they just rolled on their sides and ate their fill. My fish finder showed the sea to be a solid mass of fish, hundreds of feet deep. I wonder if they were doing their sonic/air bubble thing to herd the fish and krill? You didn't happen to hear a high pitched whistle did you? I've never seen blue whales, but I've been given to understand that when you see this, you can hear the high frequency sound waves. One other question - did you see much hash on the sounder? Krill will show up as hash on my Furuno. As to Whales, we had a Blue about 75' surface next to the 85' boat near the Coronado Islands off MX. Fantastic sight. Looked like a submarine surfacing. I have had Humpbacks about 35-40' surface next to my 21' boat. Scary when they blow and you are not knowing they are next to you and it is quiet and you are drifting with motor off.. Friend in her 32' boat had one surface under the boat. She said that was scary. Boat tilted. |
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![]() "jps" wrote in message ... On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:54:41 -0800, Jim wrote: jps wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:09:27 -0600, Vic Smith wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:51:30 -0800, Jim wrote: Went out yesterday to watch the whales feeding. I was told about this a couple of days ago but didn't go until yesterday. It was amazing. I've seen lots of whales, but never like this. They are usually migrating, not feeding like these were. There were a million sea birds, so many krill the sea turned silver. The ocean sounded like it was carbonated. Then there were groups of whales spouting as they cruised the surface feeding. No spectacular diving with the flukes following it under, they just rolled on their sides and ate their fill. My fish finder showed the sea to be a solid mass of fish, hundreds of feet deep. I've never seen so much sea life in one spot. There were several of these spots, by the way. You could see that the whales were herding the krill into the center of a big circle, a couple of miles across. Must have looked like a scene out of whaling 150 years ago. You could almost imagine the mast head lookout on a whaling ship seeing exactly the same scene. I've seen many whales, but they are usually cruising along, never like this. Not my video, mine has to be edited, and there's a lot to edit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YtC-VagE4Y Whales. Heavy duty. Like looking at the Grand Canyon. Hard to comprehend what you're seeing. Like flying into Vegas looking at the hotels out the window. You haven't a clue as to their scale until you're on the street. 100 ft and how many tons? Holy crap. It's easy to imagine their size when they surface right next to your boat. I was getting a bit uneasy after see them busy feeding and not necessarily watching out for me. Talk about bad breath! And a lot of it. Is there a law about proximity? Up here if you're caught getting close the fines are meaningful. What sort of bad breath? Anything to compare it to? It's awesome that you had the opportunity. I know the feeling of looking down into the water and seeing a big ship's propeller through the haze. It's other worldly. Seeing animals that size must be willies inducing. Even in Washington, the law is you can not approach the whales, but the whales can approach you. |
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CalifBill wrote:
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in message ... On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:51:30 -0800, Jim wrote: There were a million sea birds, so many krill the sea turned silver. The ocean sounded like it was carbonated. Then there were groups of whales spouting as they cruised the surface feeding. No spectacular diving with the flukes following it under, they just rolled on their sides and ate their fill. My fish finder showed the sea to be a solid mass of fish, hundreds of feet deep. I wonder if they were doing their sonic/air bubble thing to herd the fish and krill? You didn't happen to hear a high pitched whistle did you? I've never seen blue whales, but I've been given to understand that when you see this, you can hear the high frequency sound waves. One other question - did you see much hash on the sounder? Krill will show up as hash on my Furuno. As to Whales, we had a Blue about 75' surface next to the 85' boat near the Coronado Islands off MX. Fantastic sight. Looked like a submarine surfacing. I have had Humpbacks about 35-40' surface next to my 21' boat. Scary when they blow and you are not knowing they are next to you and it is quiet and you are drifting with motor off.. Friend in her 32' boat had one surface under the boat. She said that was scary. Boat tilted. My fish finder screen was totally filled. |
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Very hard to get a shot of a whale feeding on the surface. Did the best
I could with what I shot. The large group; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJKIfPqCQVk The smaller group to the north: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFHLX7SQhcU And a short pelican flight, because I like pelicans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU5Px6QGdt4 |
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:33:26 -0800, "CalifBill"
wrote: "jps" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:54:41 -0800, Jim wrote: jps wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:09:27 -0600, Vic Smith wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:51:30 -0800, Jim wrote: Went out yesterday to watch the whales feeding. I was told about this a couple of days ago but didn't go until yesterday. It was amazing. I've seen lots of whales, but never like this. They are usually migrating, not feeding like these were. There were a million sea birds, so many krill the sea turned silver. The ocean sounded like it was carbonated. Then there were groups of whales spouting as they cruised the surface feeding. No spectacular diving with the flukes following it under, they just rolled on their sides and ate their fill. My fish finder showed the sea to be a solid mass of fish, hundreds of feet deep. I've never seen so much sea life in one spot. There were several of these spots, by the way. You could see that the whales were herding the krill into the center of a big circle, a couple of miles across. Must have looked like a scene out of whaling 150 years ago. You could almost imagine the mast head lookout on a whaling ship seeing exactly the same scene. I've seen many whales, but they are usually cruising along, never like this. Not my video, mine has to be edited, and there's a lot to edit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YtC-VagE4Y Whales. Heavy duty. Like looking at the Grand Canyon. Hard to comprehend what you're seeing. Like flying into Vegas looking at the hotels out the window. You haven't a clue as to their scale until you're on the street. 100 ft and how many tons? Holy crap. It's easy to imagine their size when they surface right next to your boat. I was getting a bit uneasy after see them busy feeding and not necessarily watching out for me. Talk about bad breath! And a lot of it. Is there a law about proximity? Up here if you're caught getting close the fines are meaningful. What sort of bad breath? Anything to compare it to? It's awesome that you had the opportunity. I know the feeling of looking down into the water and seeing a big ship's propeller through the haze. It's other worldly. Seeing animals that size must be willies inducing. Even in Washington, the law is you can not approach the whales, but the whales can approach you. I'm not certain, but I think you may be obligated to take evasive action if you're in their path. I'm going to look it up. |
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:42:05 -0800, Jim wrote:
Very hard to get a shot of a whale feeding on the surface. Did the best I could with what I shot. The large group; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJKIfPqCQVk The smaller group to the north: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFHLX7SQhcU And a short pelican flight, because I like pelicans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU5Px6QGdt4 Damn! The birds are insane! Was there someone in a kyak out there close in the first clip? I'd have a coronary event if I were that close in a kyak... Incredible to hear the breathing. I've heard orcas breathing, the blue sounds much deeper. Whereabouts were you? Thanks for posting. Very cool. |
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