Posted on 04/06/2022 9:36:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Kat Nazar has been leading whale-watching tours in the San Francisco Bay for nearly two decades but it never gets old when she sees a spout briefly skim the surface of the water, followed by a tiny puff of steam.
And on Sunday afternoon, she may have had one of her closest encounters yet.
Nazar was steering the San Francisco Whale Tours’ 65-foot catamaran — aptly named the Kitty Kat — near the Golden Gate Bridge and Crissy Field when she approached several windsurfers and had to slow down. As they came to a stop and her passengers scanned the horizon for signs of marine life, a large gray whale suddenly appeared no more than 20 feet away from them.
“It popped up so close to the boat that I just screamed, ‘Whale!’” she said with a laugh. “It was so incredible. We always want to be whale wise and make sure we’re keeping our distance, but if they come up to us, we stop the boat for a while and let it do its thing.”
On the same day, she also spotted what appeared to be a mother whale and her calf swimming about 800 yards apart between Alcatraz and Angel Island.
“You could tell when the little baby fluked that its tail was much smaller,” said Nazar. “It was fascinating to see the differences.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ksbw.com ...
Another tragic result of man-made global warming.
As sung by Judy Collins
Farewell to Tarwathie
Adieu Mormond Hill
And the dear land of Crimmond
I bid you farewell...
I’m bound off for Greenland
And ready to sail
In hopes to find riches
In hunting the whale!
I sure hope someone went out there to teach that baby that there are more than two whale genders and it has the right to be whatever it wants.
Are scientists really think they are grey whales? Maybe they identify as Great White Sharks!! 🤓
If whales are hungry that means there are too many of them for the food supply, which means they are back to balanced, natural levels. Sounds good to me.
Poor whales. Since the magnetic North Pole keeps moving their internal GPS is all screwed up.
...tiny puff of steam?
The Niantic, a Rhode Island whaler, was one of the first ships to reach San Francisco following the discovery of gold in California. Its crew departed for the gold fields and the ship was sold. It was beached and San Francisco grew up around it. It served as the first major hotel San Francisco could offer new arrivals.
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