Whale watching turns into warnings
As more people come into contact with the largest animals on Earth, problems ensue.
As more people come into contact with the largest animals on Earth, problems ensue.
Mark Racunas filmed a whale breaching the surface of the water Jan. 19 about a half-mile off the shores of Redondo Beach.
Veteran naturalists and a handful of rookies braved biting wind and choppy seas last week to officially kick off whalewatching season.
A gray whale that was rescued off the coast of Manhattan Beach three weeks ago was found dead four hundred yards off shore in San Pedro last week.
It began with a search for an injured sea lion and ended in a whale rescue.
The call came in shortly before 10 a.m. on Jan. 4. “Orcas, orcas! We’ve got orcas!” the whale census counter at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center yelled into the phone. “And there’s a gray whale coming in too and it looks like they are on a collision path!”
Forty-eight years ago Charles ‘Flip’ Nicklin’s father Chuck rode a whale.
It seems the whales are not through exploring Redondo Beach for the summer.
Garden Grove resident Rick Coleman captured a video of a blue whale from his kayak, and from underwater recently while paddling off of Palos Verdes with his wife Susan.
Garden Grove resident Rick Coleman captured a video of a blue whale from his kayak, and from underwater recently while paddling off of Palos Verdes with his wife Susan.
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“They’re coming in fast,” Captain Brad Sawyer recently shouted to his crew.
Voyager skipper Brad Sawyer was just pulling out of his vessel’s slip with a full load of 144 school kids Saturday afternoon when he received an ecstatic call.
Voyager skipper Brad Sawyer was just pulling out of his vessel’s slip with a full load of 144 school kids Saturday afternoon when he received an ecstatic call.
Blue Whales, the largest animals to ever live on Earth.