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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Very interesting report! I have something to add, I was on
the beach at Arroyo Burro as the Condor was on the way back to the
Harbor. I had just seen a lone whale spouting and moving in a westerly
direction. It was a very tall spout, and seemed to be going the "wrong"
way! The Condor stopped, headed towards the whale, then turned fully
around and left for the harbor. I thought they might have seen the whale
and identified it, but I guess not!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Marilyn Dannehower</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Marilyn Dannehower<BR>----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=diver23@cox.net href="mailto:diver23@cox.net">Kevin Bailey</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=channel_islands_naturalist_corps@rain.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:12
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [CINC] Condor Sat. Jan 17,
2009</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">18 + Gray
Whales (1+2+6+4+ 2+2 + others in the distance)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">250 Common
Dolphins (200 + 50)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">2 Dall’s
Porpoise<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">4
Bottlenose Dolphins<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">3 Blue
Sharks<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Today was
another perfect day on the water. Fellow naturalist Scott Cuzzo and I talked
with people from France, Holland, N. CA, LA area, CO, NE, and AZ. Capt
Mat, Dave and Dennis lead us on today’s adventure with guests Bernardo and
Diane Alps of LA ACS. This was a better than usual crowd with everyone
exciting all day to see what was in the channel. The awesome weather on shore
stayed with us the entire day and no one was sick so that makes it good
already. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">We saw our
first cetacean 10 minutes out of the harbor with about 200 Common Dolphins
scattered everywhere eating, jumping, porpoising and enjoying their morning
feeding session. We stayed with them a while since they were so active and
then continued toward the islands seeing 2 Dall’s porpoise for a quick glance.
These were not the ones that wanted to be seen or photographed. Most people
missed them and I only saw one quick black blip and that was it. On we go
toward the SCI-SRI gap where we saw our 1<SUP>st</SUP> solo Gray this side of
the island. This whale didn’t want to show us any action so with several
spouts toward the gap we continued on and came upon a pair that we watched for
a bit and then as we got closer to SCI we saw a couple good sized groups. Once
we were on scene, we had 6 whales to our immediate left, 4 whales to our
immediate right and stayed with these groups for a while with lots of fluking.
The group of 6 was very close to each other the whole time. We often saw
3-4 blows at the same time as 2-3 dives. We would see many combos of flukes
and spouts in a very small area. These whales were swimming along the island
toward Painted Cave so we followed them along the island. While watching this
group we could see many spouts behind us in the 1-2 mile range headed our way
and/or toward the gap.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Although
the sea was calm all day there was quite a surge immediately against the
island so we barely made it into the shade of the cave and were not able to
get a close look at it today. All day there were large numbers of sea birds
from the gazillion pelicans that have been hanging out at the harbor to lots
of auklets skimming along the surface. A woman from NE was an avid birder and
she thoroughly enjoyed the day watching all the wildlife and loved the
Peterson Flash Guide for birds of the West Coast from the whale kit. I also
gave her a couple other good locations for tomorrow to see birds both on shore
and at Lake Cachuma. We continued home toward UCSB and saw a Blue Shark that
quickly disappeared but then 5 minutes late we saw 2 more, 1 of which allowed
us to observe its behavior for several minutes as it was slowly cruising at
the surface. We followed the coastline from just east of Goleta Beach back to
the to the harbor. Following the coast we saw 2 pairs of Bottlenose Dolphins
in their coastal positions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Everyone
on board was extremely happy with the day and several people commented that
they were amazed at how much wildlife there was to see out here as well as the
beauty of the islands. A couple locals were even amazed and said that they had
never been out in the channel even though they had lived in SB for many
years.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Kevin
Bailey<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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