[CINC] The Bad and the Good

[Bernardo Alps]

Hi all.

The blues are just outside Redondo Beach again. Here is a link to video that ACS7 aired yesterday, http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=8342612&syndicate=syndicate&section; CBS2 was going to have it on their morning news but it has not made the website yet, http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/09/05/blue-whales-spotted-in-santa-monica-bay/.

We are all familiar with scads of blue whales surface lunge feeding, but what is amazing about this is that you can actually see the spouts when you are standing outside the ticket booth for the Voyager on the Redondo Beach Pier. And the whales are mobbed by kayakers, paddleboarders and all kinds of small craft. Last year the Voyager saw a jetskier jump off the back of a blue whale on purpose.

Unheard of is not quite true, a few dozen blues fed on dense krill throughout the month of September last year.

Take care,

Bernardo


-----Original Message-----
>From: paul jr petrich <ppetrich39 at me.com>
>Sent: Sep 5, 2011 8:43 PM
>To: channel_islands_ naturalist_corps <channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org>
>Subject: [CINC] The Bad and the Good
>
>Hello and Happy ending to Labor Day,
> I was a TC work detail on SCI this weekend. I am certain either Catherine French or David will update us on the latest hiker mishap on the island, which I think ended better than expected, as he was found a day after going missing during a hike to Montanon Ridge. 
> On the good news side, I heard over an LA radio station on the way home that Blue Whales were feeding the last couple days a mile or two off of Redondo Beach pier! Unheard of in the past 80 years!    Krill is in abundance there right now!   Paul
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