Originally posted by shari
I first purchased a cheap model of a telescoping pole and my GoPro fell off the end and I lost it...crap! So I bought a better one now and have a
little floater thingy on the camera itself.
But what I really want to talk about is the problem with sticking a long pole with a camera on it around gray whales. Gray whales spook very easily
and I have experienced problems with people who when a gray whale approaches the panga...they stick this pole in right in front of them and often the
whales dont like it and just pass by instead of hanging out.
So what I do is I wait until the whale has been with us awhile and is comfortable and is interacting with the whale watchers before I gently lower the
stick in the water as unobtrusively as possible. This seems to work for me.
I also try to put people with sticks either in the bow or the stern so the sticks don't show up in everyone's photos. Last year, so many of my whale
pics had sticks right in front of the whale's face that they were unusable. So please think of other people when you are using this "tool".
It was OK when only a few people had them but now it is turning out to be problematic with people sticking poles out over the whales and in front of
their faces....so just think on that a bit. But man the whale stuff underwater is so amazing. |
