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Yeah, I think I read that there was one there (maybe the same one) a few weeks ago....andd they had closed down the canal to boats....
It was strange, cause about 45 minutes before I saw it, I saw what I thought was a big striper surfacing in the middle of the canal about 400 yards to the east of me....a few gulls came down, and then for about two or three minutes, I saw what looked like tail splashes on the surface. (Of course, I was saying "Come to me, baby!")
Awhile later, the canal patrol boat was coming from the west, and there was a gut with binoculars talking to another fisherman, pointing towards the west.....
I heard the canal patrol boat say over his loudspeaker "Environmental Police"....than looked east and saw the EP boat coming from that way....just then, the whale surfaced to the right of me, between the two boats (they were maybe a 1/4 mile from each other) again right in front of me, and a few more times over to the east......the boats followed him east, stopped there for a few minutes. One guy stood there and reeled in his herring "I don't wanna get spooled!"
There were some people up on the path with camera's and binoculars, following it down the canal.....I heard some woman say "Right Whale?".....It got within a 1/4 mile of the Sagamore bridge, and disappeared.....
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