Good work of the seal posse helps feed the killer whales. Nature at it’s best.
According to the person filming, Evan Brodsky, these orcas had just finished feeding on sea lions earlier that day. “They were spy hopping, breaching, pec-and-tail slapping and just very social and surface active!” Brodsky told KION. “The youngsters were chasing each other, and the group were rolling together with lots of touching.”
Expanding spray foam? Should use FlexSeal.
The painted wood sculpture of two breaching whales by artists Jorge Rodriguez, Neftali Palomares and Javier Campos was crafted in 2016, But less than a decade later, the art piece appears to be rotting from the inside out. Numerous cavities are present, the paint is worn, and a pectoral fin of one of the whales recently fell off.
“Maybe it’s time to retire the whales,” one resident said on social media after seeing their condition.
A campaign to raise $9,000 to pay for the piece and fund future maintenance was launched in 2016. It’s unclear if any of that money remains.
What about replacing the antennae on the little girl in the Butterfly Parade statues in front of the post office? Can we start a campaign to replace them? Shoot, the bird guy in front of the Chamber Of Commerce was repaired faster than a train ride to Maine.
Fine commentary by NBC.
A dead humpback whale was spotted in the water near Pebble Beach on Sunday, according to Monterey Bay Marine Life Studies.
The carcass could be seen floating near Bird Rock. It is not clear how the whale died.
Here is a better dead whale story from ABC:
Whale Dies In Pebble Beach
(NBC Bay Area)
Funded by fees on those whale tail license plates.
That’s thanks to a grant from the California Coastal Commission, which was used to purchase a sand-friendly beach wheelchair and beach walker for disabled visitors to the beach and Conference Grounds.
“I think this site is a really good place for that money to be spent because we have so many people staying here because of the conference grounds,” said Lisa Bradford, an interpreter there who handles tours and educational programs. “There’s a built-in audience here.”
Bradford applied for the grant money that purchased the new equipment. Funding in the amount of $3,470 paid for both the wheelchair and walker and came out of the Coastal Commission’s Whale Tail Grants Program, which distributes money for programs that educate about the value of coastal resources.
Originally, they were to have a natural finish, but after considerable rotted wood was found, the artists ended up painting the chainsaw-sculpted whales.
Since then, kids have frequently been spotted climbing on the sculpture and its base, raising both liability and safety concerns and prompting the proposal to put a fence and lighting around it. But that idea raised the ire of some residents like Luke Coletti who is adamant the park, which is zoned open space, remain so without a section of it sequestered off.
Brodeur said any new policy is likely to be better than what ill-defined guidelines were in place.
Except from Bill K(r)ampe. He just loves them.
Some are calling them kitschy, even an eyesore. That’s how a group of Pacific Grove residents are characterizing the completed sculpture of a pair of breaching whales in the city’s Berwick Park located along picturesque Ocean View Boulevard.
“I don’t like to be judgmental of art but if we can see real whales out there we don’t need to see cartoon characters of whales that basically distract your eye from the real thing,” said longtime resident and artist Jane Flury.
Local activist Luke Coletti agreed.
“The whales are nothing more than a garish eyesore and detract from the natural art of Berwick Park,” said Coletti, about the wooden sculpture that was completed in October.
Wooden Whales Get Weak Welcome
Termites do your best.
“We’re about 60 percent into it,” said Jorge Rodriguez, the artist leading the project and working alongside fellow sculptors Javier Campos and Neftali Palomares commissioned to do the work. “We’re now going over the fine details.”
“The transformation of natural resources into chainsaw ‘art’ is an absurd practice within an environment such as Berwick Park,” said Coletti, in a prepared statement. “Many, including myself, want to see a living tree re-established here instead.”
Tourists looking for In ‘N’ Out Burger.
Stemler noticed that the local harbor seals jumped out of the way quickly and scampered on to docks as if they were afraid of a predator in their midst.
A longtime captain at the Monterey Harbor said that having killer whales inside the breakwater is extremely rare, only happening twice in his entire career.
The whales did not stay long, after a dip in the harbor, they strolled back up Cannery Row and out to the pacific.
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Four Killer Whales Spotted in Harbor
For the second time in less than a week, a federal court has found that a Navy anti-submarine training program threatens to subject whales and other sea creatures to harmful blasts of sonar and ordered protective measures in several sensitive zones, including one near Monterey Bay.
The latest ruling, issued Wednesday by U.S. Magistrate Elizabeth Laporte of San Francisco, applies to the Navy’s use of low-frequency sonar in submarine detection exercises conducted in large areas of the world’s oceans. Navy officials agreed to restrictions after Laporte issued a similar ruling in 2002, but she said they failed to take adequate precautions when seeking a five-year renewal of the program last year.
U.S. Magistrate Stops U.S. Navy, Whales And Enemies Can Invade