Humpback Whales in my hometown River system!

[bigbear]

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A pair of wayward humpback whales that wandered from San Francisco Bay into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta continued their improbable odyssey Tuesday, swimming to the outskirts of the state capital.The whales eluded marine biologists and law enforcement patrols who had searched for them throughout the day but were spotted Tuesday evening by KCRA 3 Live Copter HD in the deep water shipping channel south of Sacramento.Footage showed the whales -- believed to be a mother and her calf -- plying the canal about two miles south of the Port of Sacramento. They were headed upriver toward the turning basin used for deep-water ships, a journey of more than 50 miles from the point where the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers merge at Suisun Bay.
"We have seen the whales; they're back," said Jim Milbury, a spokesman with the National Marine Fisheries ServiceHe said a team of experts was planning to arrive in Sacramento from Long Beach on Wednesday to assess the health of the whales and how they can be lured back toward the ocean.The whales were spotted in the lower Sacramento River over the weekend and caused a sensation on Monday when they surfaced repeatedly near the delta towns of Isleton and Rio Vista.Marine experts had expected to spend Tuesday evaluating the whales after the larger one appeared to be entangled in fishing gear. But they searched in vain until the television helicopter spotted them.The team will determine if the object needs to be removed."If there is fishing line on, like there appears to be from the helicopters, it will be a question of how badly it is entangled and can it swim and survive, or not," he said.Joe Cordaro, a wildlife biologist with the fisheries service, said researchers were unsure whether it was a rope or other constraint wrapped around the female's mouth or if the object was some sort of natural tissue.The Coast Guard has ordered boats to stay at least 100 yards away from the mammals and aircraft to stay at least 1,000 feet above the water.John Calambokidis, a whale expert at Cascadia Research in Olympia, Wash., said it was normal for humpbacks to feed along the California coast at this time of year but rare for them to enter inland waters."To be where they are now is highly unusual," Calambokidis said in a telephone interview Tuesday morning, before the whales were spotted even farther upriver. "The main concerns are whether they are able to find their way out, are they at any risk of beaching themselves and are there any entanglements?"Calambokidis said the whales could survive long stretches in fresh water.While it's unusual for whales to reach so far into the delta, it is not the first time. In 1985, a humpback nicknamed Humphrey was escorted back to sea after swimming in the delta for nearly a month.He returned to San Francisco Bay five years later, and rescuers had to pull him off a mudflat.

[Dark Dude]

it seems to be all the rage nowadays for whales, you arent cool unless you swim up a river, kind of like emo kids.

heres a song about the london whale, by the band (nameless) from The album The Good, The Bad and The Queen.

Another wave crashed over you
It pull you in a spell
If I know you
I wish you well

It'll pull you further out to sea
It'll pull you in a dream
it's the last thing you want
but you leave

On another day you'll be all seeing out your heart down
and a northern whale wouldn't wait
he'd be on the heart and down to you
if you know me, you'll know
I love you

A nananana

Why can't you [...]
But do you ever listen to the heart,
its song and reach out


And when the counting comes to be
I doubt you'd ever think of me
But I know it's dark now

On another day I'll be gone seeing out and holding
but a northern whale wouldn't wait
he'd be coming right there on the sound
If you wait, listen, you'll hear, I love you

On another day there's no way anything [...] touch
but northern whale wouldn't care
he'd be be there waiting on the sound
if you know me, you'll know I love you

If you know me you'll know
I love you

[Bill5461]

They tried to scared them away, but they did not leave. (sorry if that's already included in that very long story)

[bigbear]

Originally Posted by Bill5461

They tried to scared them away, but they did not leave. (sorry if that's already included in that very long story)

I wish they would get a big ship and capture them in the water using a net and take them to a holding tank at an aquarium and treat their injuries and than release them back into the pacific ocean!

[Bill5461]

FREE WILLY!

but they'll just end up killed by the Chinese up in Alaska. I say we keep em.

[Blackmask]

China isn't a whaling country. Do you mean the Japanese? Damn those Asians for all looking the same.

Saw this on the news last night. They are trying to get the whales to follow a boat to get them back to sea.

[bigbear]

Originally Posted by Blackmask

China isn't a whaling country. Do you mean the Japanese? Damn those Asians for all looking the same.

Saw this on the news last night. They are trying to get the whales to follow a boat to get them back to sea.

This is an update so far this is not working they tried playing whales sounds underwater and the whales are just ignoring the sounds.

Originally Posted by Blackmask

China isn't a whaling country. Do you mean the Japanese? Damn those Asians for all looking the same.

[Plastic Flute]

One Degree to Josh Hartnett.

Are you calling him a whale? Because if you are, I'm totally OK with it.