Good grief the Poms are thick. They are running around saying that a dead and rotting Orca is a sea monster of some sort.
A video of a mysterious carcass washed up on a New Zealand beach has gone viral. Experts have suggested that the carcass is that of a killer whale but this has failed to quash “sea monster” speculation.
You wouldn’t want to dress like a seal.
Shane Anderson, of Kite Surf Nelson, photographs himself with the orcas.
A kite-surfer near Nelson’s historic lighthouse, a camera-wielding Mapua man, and a standup paddle boarder at The Glen have experienced the magic of a pod of orcas firsthand.
Mapua man Paul Nankivell’s friends in Ruby Bay called him early yesterday, saying a pod of orcas was in front of their seaside home. Read more »
via Pollie Gillespie / Facebook – Credit Paul Howell Photography
(All Whale posts are mandatory, aheeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww)
Whale posts are mandatory, especially if they are local news.
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Now that Gareth Morgan has upset every animal lover, including every middle aged woman in New Zealand, can we expect some serious capital outflows from his underperforming KiwiSaver fund that bears his name? Why would people want to invest their money with someone who wants to kill all the cats?
And Kiwibank won’t be pleased with the bang up job Gareth is doing on the Kiwisaver fund they bought off Gareth a year ago?
I wonder if there are any clawback provisions for the purchase price since Gareth is now destroying their Kiwisaver brand?
Or has crafty Gareth chosen to open his mouth a full one year after the purchase date, perhaps conveniently outside any clawback date?
The TAB won’t be taking bets on how quickly Kiwibank will rebrand the Mad Moustache Fund into something a little less controversial.
Mad Morgan certainly knows no bounds when doing nutty things. In the last year or so he’s:
The man who famously fattened up a penguin for a lucky orca is now causing the Phoenix to crash and burn.
Gareth Morgan clearly has so little to do, that his expertise as an economist is now morphing into professional coaching and sports psychology.
It’s always the way – Morgan goes to extreme lengths to “save” a penguin, then he drops it into southern ocean with a tracker, where it is never heard from again. Read more »
We were promised that the Arctic would be ice free by 2012. Well it isn’t and as a result a pod of Orca are in great peril as the ice closes in around them:
Locals are calling for an ice-breaker to help free the mammals. Photo: AP/Marina Lacasse
Twelve whales are caught in a death trap outside of a northern Quebec fishing village.
Since Monday, the killer whales have been stranded under thick layers of sea ice near the town of Inukjuak, on the northeastern coast of the Hudson Bay. They take turns breathing through a small breach in the ice, but one expert says that if immediate action isn’t taken to free them, the whales could suffocate or die from exhaustion.
“These are large animals competing for breathing space in a hole not much larger than your desk,” said Lyne Morisette, a marine ecologist and researcher at the Université de Québec à Rimouski. “We don’t have two weeks to manoeuvre here.”
About 25 km of ice separates the pod from open water, meaning it would take an ice breaking ship to open a path for them.
An Inuit hunter stumbled upon the whales earlier this week while tracking seals. killer whales are a rare sight in the Hudson Bay during winter, and the animals have drawn dozens of curious locals from Inukjuak — a one-hour snowmobile ride from the ice breach.
The Inuit seem perplexed as to what to do about the Orca. Read more »
You know how it works, any article about Orca will get commented on. They are the coolest whales:
Expatriate Kiwi Craig Harman’s festive holidays got a special boost when he had this close encounter with a group of orcas in the Waitemata Harbour.
The London-based television cameraman was in Auckland visiting his parents when the orcas, including two youngsters, surrounded the family boat near Motuihe Island about 4.30pm on Thursday.
“We were on a fishing trip and suddenly eight or nine whales in two groups appeared from nowhere and came over to the boat for a look at us,” Harman, 34, said. “It was incredible seeing something so majestic swimming in a city harbour.
“In London, the most exotic thing I have seen was a seal in the River Thames so this was an unforgettable experience.”
