Call me Ahab…
Oy, I’m really falling behind. At least I’m spending plenty of boat time!
Last weekend (April 26), I took Amy and Tony out for a sail. Gorgeous day, with plenty of wind, although from a strange point (SSW), very abnormal for SF Bay. We headed out towards the bridge, since the tide was coming in and the wind would help us come back. We were just in Hurricane Gulch when we all heard a sound, a loud Whoof! It sounded like a seal, but really close, I turned to look, and just off our port stern, about 15 feet away, was a whale. I could see barnacles.
We all started yelling appropriate things (Oh my God! Its a whale!) and Amy said “Turn the boat around, follow it!” The whale submerged and I said that it could be down for 20 minutes and we don’t know where its going, so can’t follow it. Then, a second, much larger whale surfaced about 30 feet away. It was huge. Gorgeous.
I saw whales! In the bay! Apparently they were Grey whales and other people saw them for several days.
We think they were probably mother and calf and that the calf wanted to check out the boat. You know, they were probably in the area checking out colleges. Last seen, they were headed towards Berkeley.
