From my one experience, I’d say the whales like showing off. The tour boats are required to shut down their engines at a safe distance but the whales swam up to the boat and breached beside it several times.
Here in Depoe Bay we have a small summer population of Grey Whales.
They stop here, instead of continuing north, and feed on Mysid Shrimp and Crab Larva. The advantage of stopping here being that they get to start putting the weight back on sooner. Also, there are plenty of little coves that mom can leave her calf while she goes hunting for biomass.
I had one boat captain tell me that one of the moms will actually herd her calf to the smaller whale-watcers and leave it there to go feed a bit.
:D
It’s learned to use the whale-watcers as a baby sitter.
Stevefk about 6 years ago
Oh c’mon,go ahead and show those tourists your blowhole!
P51Strega about 6 years ago
From my one experience, I’d say the whales like showing off. The tour boats are required to shut down their engines at a safe distance but the whales swam up to the boat and breached beside it several times.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 6 years ago
Here in Depoe Bay we have a small summer population of Grey Whales.
They stop here, instead of continuing north, and feed on Mysid Shrimp and Crab Larva. The advantage of stopping here being that they get to start putting the weight back on sooner. Also, there are plenty of little coves that mom can leave her calf while she goes hunting for biomass.
I had one boat captain tell me that one of the moms will actually herd her calf to the smaller whale-watcers and leave it there to go feed a bit.
:D
It’s learned to use the whale-watcers as a baby sitter.
Zen-of-Zinfandel about 6 years ago
Be a little more punctuwhale.
rickmac1937 Premium Member about 6 years ago
keep up the great work, just love this comic daily