bajalinda
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Whales heading south
For those of you who like to keep track of them, we saw the first whales of the season heading south by our place last Friday. Also some in close to
the shore Tuesday afternoon and yesterday morning for a nice whale show.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajalinda
For those of you who like to keep track of them, we saw the first whales of the season heading south by our place last Friday. Also some in close to
the shore Tuesday afternoon and yesterday morning for a nice whale show. |
Where is "your place"?
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bajalinda
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oops, sorry! We're at La Aguja.
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Where is La Aguja? ? ?Just never heard of it off the bat. I guess I could search the map.
My wife swam off La Jolla cove, San Diego, and spotted two today and two more spotted yesterday.
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Hi Linda...do you think they could be humpbacks? I say that because it's much too early for gray whales to be migrating but humpbacks are often in the
area this time of year.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by brewer
Where is La Aguja? ? ?Just never heard of it off the bat. I guess I could search the map.
My wife swam off La Jolla cove, San Diego, and spotted two today and two more spotted yesterday. |
Look on the Pacific coast, opposite of La Paz... I added a white arrow:
Baja Nomad member 'rob' is developing the area with homes... Mike Younghusband was there for a couple days on his famous walk down Baja with a burro
named Don-Kay.
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bajalinda
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Thanks for the map David.
Shari - you are much more the marine biologist than I am! All I can say, from my non-expert eye, is that they did look like they had that humpback
hump. In any case, we begin to see whales passing by here every year in late October, so they are right on schedule.
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They're on their way to Maui.
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It sounds like Humbacks then...something interesting about them is that they vacation in different places kinda like we do...sometimes they go to
Hawaii, or visit Mexico or Costa Rica...they dont always migrate to the same place like other whales do. Apart from the wee dorsal fin and humped back
when they dive, another tell tale feature is that they have long white pectoral fins that they slap on the surface.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
They're on their way to Maui. |
Maybe their GPS is busted
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Busted GPS? No. They're on their way to where they usually go.
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