WOW!

[Nebe]

This afternoon I was lamenting on the fact that I wont be running the rocks of narragansett until next spring, so I went down to Hazard ave just to look around, take in some sea air, watch the scoter ducks and loons play in the water, when all of a sudden, 100 feet in front of me, BOOM!!!! a 40 foot long finback whale breached straight out of the water, and came crashing down sending spray almost to my feet. I just stood there with my mouth wide open in amazement as this enoumous whale fed on what looked like herring for about an hour. Totally amazing, and the best part about it was the fact that I was the only one there to see it. I wish I had my camera, becasue it was un-believable how close to shore this whale was.. I guess it had the bait pinned up to the rocks. It moved south, so I jumped in my truck and headed it off at Newton ave and watched it some more.. Breaching, slapping its tail, spewing spray out it's blow-hole. Then I ralized how long I had ben gone from work and left it there.

totally amazing.... If any of you Rhode Island guys can get down there, it might hang around while there is still bait to be eaten.

This made my month! I'm going to look around on the web at whale pictures, just to make sure it was infact a Finback..
eben