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‘My Heart Started Racing’: Kayaker Has Insanely Close Encounter With Whale in Vancouver’s Bay
National Post ^
| Apr 14
Posted on 04/14/2016 11:27:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
My heart started racing: Kayaker has insanely close encounter with whale in Vancouvers English Bay
Instagram user johnnyvanuck had a close encounter with a whale on Monday and has the video to prove it.
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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Sports
KEYWORDS: kayak; vancouver; whale
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To: nickcarraway
Trivial. (Says the guy who just finished Moby Dick!)
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posted on
04/14/2016 11:29:36 AM PDT
by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: null and void
Imagine if the Pequod was a kayak, and Queequeg was a paddle...
To: nickcarraway
Saw a guy kayak fishing in the swamp. He pulled up a float and a BIG aligator tried to taste his arm.
That would be scary. The whale isnt gonna hurt you.
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posted on
04/14/2016 11:33:33 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: nickcarraway
In his post johnnyvanuck said that he set out to find the whale that had been reportedly feeding in English Bay over the last week. ...not like it was an accidental encounter.
To: driftdiver
Saw a guy kayak fishing in the swamp. He pulled up a float and a BIG alligator tried to taste his arm. Juggin' for catfish.
Link
Little daughter was also in the kayak.
To: nickcarraway
Someone took the vid.
Should it not read”Kayaker and photographer associate have close encounter”.
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posted on
04/14/2016 11:42:03 AM PDT
by
CGASMIA68
To: driftdiver
Not for food. But humpbacks are very acrobatic and the tail looked like it was just about ready to flip them off.
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posted on
04/14/2016 11:44:53 AM PDT
by
erlayman
(yw)
To: TexasCajun
That was insane.....they were very lucky.
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posted on
04/14/2016 11:45:45 AM PDT
by
Envisioning
(4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
To: nickcarraway
This is the spear fisherman thread all over again. You are in their environment, their world, and you roll the dice when you’re in it.
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posted on
04/14/2016 11:50:07 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: Envisioning
That gator was bigger than any I've seen on Swamp People, just by the size of its head.
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/14/2016 11:56:23 AM PDT
by
leaning conservative
(snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: TexasCajun
Saw it on Fox this morning. scary stuff
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posted on
04/14/2016 12:01:27 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: nickcarraway
Micro-aggression! Micro-aggression! Micro-aggression!
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posted on
04/14/2016 12:11:50 PM PDT
by
fwdude
To: nickcarraway
One summer morning about 10 miles north of Juneau, the wife and I anchored in 15 fathoms of saltchuck fishing for halibut when a big "whoosh" caught our attention - it was a humpback about 50 feet off our beam heading straight for our 17 footer.
No motor was running so we banged on the hull and the beast dove under the boat in the real clear water and proceeded to snag my bait - the reel went off like a siren and I yanked it from the rod holder - for a minute I had a 40 ton whale on my line, but luckily it slid off its fluke and no harm done. The Penn 49 reel was never the same after that incident.
It could have been worse if he hooked up with our anchor line, like a Nantucket sleigh ride.
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posted on
04/14/2016 12:20:30 PM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: nickcarraway
from underwater, kayaers look like their favorite food- seals and walruses
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posted on
04/14/2016 12:37:10 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Trump / ???)
To: driftdiver
a kayak in the swamp does not seem very smart
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posted on
04/14/2016 12:38:04 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Trump / ???)
To: nickcarraway
He is about to be prosecuted under international law. He just doesn’t know it yet.
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posted on
04/14/2016 12:42:37 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
To: Mr. K
having been in the Everglades in a kayak I can say its really not a big deal, MOST of the time.
Every gator I’ve ever seen would either lay there sleeping or run away as soon as they saw you. Never had one do anything agressive.
Not even when I went diving in a natural spring with a 9’ gator sunning on the side. Nothing but 75’ of crystal clear 72 degree water separating us.
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posted on
04/14/2016 12:58:53 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Mr. K
It’s a humpback. They eat schooling fish and krill.
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