Sighting Report
GREY WHALE
Shirley and Jim MacDonald
March 18, 2005
We live on Outrigger Rd in the first house on the water side or if you are on a boat the first house on the right after you clear the Schooner Cove breakwater. Yesterday (Friday Mar. 18) about 2.30 PM Shirley was looking out on the water and immediately in front of our house and swimming towards our rock appeared a whale (not a killer whale) He spouted three times and continued down the shoreline and away from the marina. She called me and I also it heading on down the shoreline at a slow cruise rate of speed.
On checking internet it said this about the great Grey whale --mottled grey in colour with numerous patches of barnacles around the blow hole, top of the head and fore part of the back. Males approx 35 to 50 ft in length and perhaps the scruffiest of the great whales. This seems to accurately describe the whale that we saw yesterday. We understand that the Greys do occasionally travel up through the straits. Quite exciting to see
