August 2019 #1 Burping Whales & Dragging Anchors!
Quite the stormy night in Gorge Harbour! A stiff SE gale blew up and one of the anchored cruisers dragged and picked up another cruisers anchor yanking 250ft of heavy chain with anchor attached all...
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November 2019 #1 Whalesong!
“I’ll pump it up some more. Did you find the methylhydrate?” Terry is rummaging around in the starboard lazerette looking for a bicycle pump to pressurize the kerosene tank. The tank feeds an old Force...
View ArticleOctober 2020 Halloween Reveries with Whales
These are the sounds we were hearing on Halloween night. Terry and I anchored off Savary Island in our little old sailboat Blue Parrot. A lovely end-of-October eve on the Salish Sea filled our senses....
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September #1 2021 – How to Sex a Humpback Whale
Terry, the amphibious videographer and I are scanning the water between Powell River and Texada Island searching for a humpback whale that might be entangled. “She said they saw a white buoy on the...
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February 2022 #2 – Finally, Singing Whales!
After 3 days the social and economic inequalities of Cabo San Lucas are getting to me. They remind me of how privileged I am as a Canadian tourist in this world where 1% of the population controls 99%...
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March 2022 #1 – Whales and Whale Sharks
We are lucky. Onno is amazing, competent AND easy going!! This is a rare combination in a ship’s captain. In fact, after Roger and Aashima come aboard the 4 of us spend a lot of time laughing …… and...
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July 2022 #3 – Bubble Feeding!
“T-Rex is bubble feeding off Wilby Shoals” the voice of whale watching guide ‘Supernova’ sings cheerily over SV Blue Parrot’s VHF radio. “Let’s go!” I turn Blue P 90°W. We’ve been floating between...
View ArticleAugust #1 2022 – How do Whales Nurse Their Babies?
More Moms with calves are showing up here in the Salish Sea this season – 6 pairs sighted so far. Judging by their playful acrobatics and assertive blows the young ones are thriving. The mothers seem...
View ArticleDecember 2022 – Amazing Sounds of Humpback Whales!
In 2019 Terry (aka “the amphibiographer”) got a camera that can shoot 4K video. But in 2019 our 2008 computer was not fast enough to play the clips. This meant that we couldn’t actually review video or...
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