Whales tales

[Rudi]

Once on a charter trip out of Depoe Bay a baby(20ft)gray whale came up just a few yards from us. Seemed curious. It was cool. Just after that I hooked a big fish, got it right up to the boat and it turned out to be a shark. It spit the hook, about 4 feet from the boat. Glad he did that as you can't land them. The skipper said it looked like a White. We caught a lot of Rockfish on that trip.

 

[hsguy]

Read some earlier articles about the Spanish orcas damaging small boats, and no one could figure out why. A marine biologist in BWZ's article thinks it might be juveniles playing rough and maybe enjoying causing damage. Juvenile delinquents, essentially.

Hanauma Bay on Oahu is beautiful, but man is it packed with tourists, who arrive by the busload in addition to rental cars.

If you continue on H1 just a little further, on the left is the Koko Head Shooting Range, about the only place on Oahu that you can shoot, unless you have access to a military base. Used to spend a fair amount of time there. (Come to think of it, I think there is an indoor range in Waikiki that rents guns to tourists, primarily from Asia, but I've never been.)

I visited there once out of curiosity. They would sell t-shirts and jeans to the tourists and let them shoot at them with shotguns to have a great souvenir to take home. Seemed to be doing a booming business (pun intended).

 

[Ray]

As for Orca striking boats you may want to read a book by Dougal Robertson named
" Survive The Savage Sea". It´s quite a story !
Regards, Ray