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BigOly
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First whale we've seen this year.Los Barriles.
[Edited on 12-19-2011 by BigOly]
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rhintransit
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one was sighted off Loreto yesterday...isn't it early for this?
reality\'s never been of much use out here...
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shari
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Juan has seen a few grays starting to migrate down already and humpbacks as well.
We are starting to plan our Nomad whale trips for feb/march if anyone is interested in joining us...let us know your dates.
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
Juan has seen a few grays starting to migrate down already and humpbacks as well.
We are starting to plan our Nomad whale trips for feb/march if anyone is interested in joining us...let us know your dates. |
Shari is the one in BigOly's picture a finback or a humpback? Pretty sure it's a humpback but need an expert ID.
[Edited on 12-19-2011 by Ken Bondy]
carpe diem!
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elgatoloco
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Finback.  
MAGA
Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
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Ken Bondy
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This thread triggered an old memory of a wonderful encounter I had in 1982 with a fin whale at Punta San Francisquito. It was actually published in a
book on dolphin and whale encounters:
carpe diem!
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
This thread triggered an old memory of a wonderful encounter I had in 1982 with a fin whale at Punta San Francisquito. |
Ken, how have you managed to keep your girlish figure? 
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
Ken, how have you managed to keep your girlish figure? |
Hard work, discipline, healthy diet, and a lot of freediving with dolphins.
carpe diem!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
This thread triggered an old memory of a wonderful encounter I had in 1982 with a fin whale at Punta San Francisquito. |
Ken, how have you managed to keep your girlish figure? |
Yeah...Ken. Jeeezo, you're a real babe. 
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Wiles
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Humpback
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windgrrl
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Spotted a few whales close to shore in LB in early November and someone mentioned killer whales in the bay a few weeks ago. A few dolphins, not many
flying mobulas so far, though, still early? Love watching the little flying fish sparkling ahead of my windsurfer!
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Hard work, discipline, healthy diet, and a lot of freediving with dolphins. |
Cool. Word of advice:
Don't get arrested.
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
Cool. Word of advice:
Don't get arrested. |
Too late 
carpe diem!
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BigOly
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Hey Ken, What's that Too late crp about? Tomorrow the Sun will rise.
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shari
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Hey Ken...that whale must have known you were a photographer and a nice guy...he was posing for you ....guess you didnt have your camera eh?
Once, the head honcho of Baja Life, Eric Cutter, looked me up cause he wanted a cover shot of a spyhopping whale for his March issue. It was very
early in the season and most whales had newborns with them and so there was virtually no spy hopping going on in the lagoon at that time and I told
him so...but he insisted he had faith in me and he would get the shot he
needed....sheesh...so he was a pretty nice guy and so out we went and the lanchero and I were talking about how no way was he gonna get a spy hop shot
for his magazine...when lo and behold an enormous whale spy hops directly in front of us about 100 yards away...the lanchero and I look at each other
and laugh....bloody typical!
We laugh because whales LOVE to prove us wrong and make us look silly in front of clients...just after we say something, they love to make monkeys out
of us and have a grand sense of humour!
So this particular whale, not only spy hopped, but continued to do so all around our panga for about an hour which is simply unheard of...not natural
and just plain silly. She was very photogenic and made sure to have the sun on her just right and held her poses long enough to be photographed a
kazillion times. She must have liked Eric to give him what he wanted....and of course we have never ever seen anything like it since that day.
Whales often seem to know what we want/need and go out of their way to provide it and make us happy....or on the contrary if some passenger is nasty,
they go out of their way to splash you, spout all over your camera, slap the boat and generally scare the crap out of you.
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
Hey Ken...that whale must have known you were a photographer and a nice guy...he was posing for you ....guess you didnt have your camera.
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Can you believe it Sis? Me without a camera and that happens. 30 years gone by and it still hurts
carpe diem!
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OOHH<MMYYYYYY....(radio talk) LOL..LOLlife is good..
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shari
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see what I mean Ken by whales have this kind of sick sense of humour sometimes...they knew you didnt have your camera those rascals!!!! they do it on
purpose
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Ken Bondy
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So true shari, I'm usually welded to a camera, the one time I didn't have one a fin whale tries to climb into my inflatable 
carpe diem!
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volcano
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big oly....am really enjoying your bird book... a real treat
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