This is really cool! Has anyone glimpsed our early season whales from the coast? The annual gray whale migration season is off to an early start, and the creatures are swimming close enough to the coastline in San Diego County that many are easily visible from coastal bluff tops. “For December, we have seen an unusually high number of whales,” said Judy Lawrence, a volunteer naturalist on whale-watching boats in San Diego. The story is similar to the north at Palos Verdes, where a long-term tracking project reported about five times as many gray whale sightings in the weeks before Christmas as it did in the same period a year ago. Over...
