[CINC] Grays at the beach!

[staci at savzsea.com]

Sunday around 3PM I (and a beach full people) spotted a south bound gray
whale, outside the Ventura harbor entrance just past the breakwater.


Staci Kaye-Carr


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [CINC] Grays at the beach!
From: ThusOne at aol.com
Date: Mon, January 19, 2009 6:39 pm
To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org


 This is a bit unusual for south bound...   I saw two gray whales, one
did a full breach and i wasn't even on a boat.  
 
 Today at Carpinteria beach about 3:15 pm.  (nice big surf)  And I
didn't bother bringing my binoculars on this particular day.   The first
whale was right at the end of the Venoco pier when I became aware of it.
  I thought it might be in trouble because it was so close to shore.  
There was a kayak right there only even further out than the whale was,
with teenagers in it (I think).   They were very wise and just stayed
still and didn't try to follow the whale.
 
 Then another whale comes from my right to left... or it might have even
been two.   But it was further out and it did a full breach.
 I have only seen one Gray whale from Carpinteria beach before this, and
that was the more usual north bound.
 
 Shirley Johnson
 


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