The question remains, is it US or Chinese? The Russians wasted the few they had on Kyiv.
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Posted on 07/25/2022 12:38:42 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Brian Herbst had a banner Alaska vacation. He caught rockfish and halibut, saw moose and bears, stayed in a yurt — and in a moment of perfect timing, managed to snap a photo of a minke whale mid-breach, suspended above the waters of Kachemak Bay.
Using his daughter’s high school yearbook camera and a borrowed lens, he started snapping photos.
He knew he’d gotten the perfect shot. It’s not known why the whales breach, powering up out of the water and flying into the air, Webber said. It could be a way to signal to other whales by making a loud reentry into the water, or “some heightened state of excitement or demonstration of exuberance,” he said — but that’s just speculation.
The minke whale is the smallest baleen whale in Alaska waters. They weigh up to 20,000 pounds and typically measure 25 to 30 feet long as adults, far smaller than their gargantuan counterparts, like humpback, blue and gray whales.
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The question remains, is it US or Chinese? The Russians wasted the few they had on Kyiv.
“You said minke.”
Too cool! Thanks.
“Do youuu have a licanse for zhat minke?”
Flying whales.
Great.
We’ll have to get more ack ack guns.
That’s no Minke whale, that’s a rare hover whale. 🙂
“Top this! You would sink like a rock!...said the Minke to the Humpback.
Great photo. Back in the 50’s whale meat was available at the butcher shop. My mother would make something like a pate to put on toast points or crackers, usually for New Year’s Eve or the like. It was delicious.
“Thanks for all the fish”
—”. My mother would make something like a pate to put on toast points or crackers, usually for New Year’s Eve or the like. It was delicious.”
A Dumb question, was this a family cultural thing or a matter of thrift?
My father was a Scotsman and would eat most anything set in front of him, my mother was German (2ed gen), similar.
Being a Navy brat we often ate what was on sale at the commissary. As a kid I thought lamb patties and hamburgers were the same? And always a treat!
Even as my father moved up through the ranks, we ate about the same.
I don’t recall any whale meat but I’m certain it would have been better than ocean perch!
Nice form on that whale - fins pointed, streamlined...just an amazing photo.
Pic caught the whale flopping down from it’s veridical leap. Awesome timing.
Chimpanzee minke?
Nostradamus perdicted this. I seen it on the History Channel.
Why the score, because the whale didn't do the shite-eatin-grin, as it was still in the air, to convey I can do this, you hoomans can't.
So say's Samson the white Pitbull, with the black-eye, from the pacific northwest, 50 miles north of the San-Fran-Freak-O of the North, formerly known as Seattle. Woof, woof, woofers.
“They that go down to the Sea in ships; that do business on the great waters, have seen His Wonders in the deep.” - Psalm 107
Haha, my first thought as well....
WOW!
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