Kathy, Brent.. I know my last post may have seemed like an april fools' jape, but I'm afraid it was true... The head was found by two young girls who were playing on the beach, http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2008/04/02/newsstory11151827t0.asp allan@crawsnest 02 Apr 2008 01:20:15 PST Good morning! About the dolphins in Shark Bay - only german - http://reisen.t-online.de/c/14/66/29/96/14662996.html Doris@Germany 01 Apr 2008 22:55:56 PST kathy@nanaimo, bc I got me old hard-drive on ice, soon i;ll attempt to defrost. in the meantime, i hope you have my bjshoes addy, and will email me. <3 ~ :) brent@nc um, that fuell oil trucks fuel should flow up, hopefully through a hose into a container... no shoe strings untied! 01 Apr 2008 20:09:03 PST Thanks for the OrcaCam info Scott, I'll be watching every opportunity I get! 'Japan cries foul over Australia's dugong hunt' http://tinyurl.com/ypp9le , if the figures are right, they SHOULDN'T be hunted!! . 'Feeding the fascination for orcas' http://tinyurl.com/2935rh . 'Confrontation Breaks Out Over East Coast Seal Hunt' http://tinyurl.com/yqf2tm . Sorry, long headline! 'Researchers to Develop Ocean Sanctuary 'Noise Budget' to Identify Sources and Evaluate Potential Impact on Marine Mammal' http://tinyurl.com/2zsvmq . 'Secret 'dino bugs' revealed' http://tinyurl.com/38ffz4 . 'Climate change threatens the extinction of Australian mammals' http://tinyurl.com/2e2lae . Steve@UK 01 Apr 2008 16:09:31 PST This should answer your question ej http://snipurl.com/237mn Perhaps your head belongs to one of the 3 size 12 Right feet that have washed up on our shores this past yr. allan ;-) kathy@nanaimo, bc 01 Apr 2008 14:09:16 PST hey everyone! can someone PLEASE help me with one question, i would like to know how it is possible that when sealing, they can take so much each year, and yet still be lots of seal pups the next year? do they re-produce at a fast rate the seals??? thanks. ej@duncan 01 Apr 2008 13:49:29 PST Hi all, J pod is currently passing northward along the west side of San Juan Island making some nice calls. I've been having fun watching the Center for Whale Research's new ORCACAM (25x optical zoom!) while listening to Val Veirs's OrcaSound llive hydrophone signal (courtesy the Whale Museum and available at http://orcasound.net/os ). I've ripped some calls/clicks and will post to orcasound.net shortly. Wishing you all a speedy removal of that diesel tanker, Scott in Seattle P.S. Our students will be working with the southern residents for the next 10 weeks. You can follow their progress at http://beamreach.org/081 Scott Veirs@Seattle, WA 01 Apr 2008 13:48:08 PST Grim discovery on the beach... This is not cetacean news.. This is the discovery of a human head on a beach nearby to me.. Not particularly looking forward to patrolling the beach over the next while, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7324591.stm allan@crawsnest 01 Apr 2008 08:15:23 PST 'Defence calls off planned roo cull' http://tinyurl.com/34g85r . 'Maine bird study showing pervasive contaminants resonates locally' http://tinyurl.com/2plwlq . 'Hope over Tasmanian Devil cancer' http://tinyurl.com/22m8vu . Hope your not gone for too long OL. We'll miss you! Steve@UK 31 Mar 2008 23:08:16 PST Thanks for your kind comments, everyone, and thanks also for helping to convince Canada & BC's governments to clean up Robson Bight before the orcas return. We do, by the way, hope to have this board back again before long, so don't worry if it's gone for a while. Paul & Helena@OL 31 Mar 2008 22:05:53 PST Towhee, and anyone else, the O-L chat room still is open, try it, it won't bite http://client0.addonchat.com/sc.php?id=5548 Tommorrow, tonight's too late LOL fred@BC 31 Mar 2008 21:25:46 PST Good Evening OLers, Paul & Helena, Thank you for all you do for this board, the orca's & environment! I've written my letters this evening, & I hope that the bight gets cleaned up very soon. It's so worrysome & disturbing...have a good evening everyone, & write those letters! :) KimD@El Sobrante 31 Mar 2008 21:06:39 PST I owe my whole new life closer to the ocean to OL, basically. It all began with that first call I heard one summer night about 5 years ago when I fetched up here by accident while looking for really-far-north webcams. Now I have a whole shelf of marine mammal books, and many wonderful memories both virtual and from realtime visits to Johnstone Strait, and the frequent opportunity to continue to fail to see Eschrichtius robustus :-) Thanks to Paul and Helena, who kept my head under the sea for several years!! Towhee@Port Angeles 31 Mar 2008 18:21:56 PST spent yet another day practicing my current favorite sport: failing to see gray whales from shore along the NW Washington coast. :-) Today I was on the bluff south of Ruby Beach. Thought I would try a wider/further view rather than stubbornly hanging out on First Beach where they hypothetically come in near the shore. Nope. No Cetacea. Lots of ocean, though. I'm not complaining; listening to waves, watching breakers and whitecaps, scanning far and near with my binoculars. What's not to love?? Towhee@Port Angeles, wondering whether comments is still going to be unplugged, and if so would someone please remind me where everyone will be hanging out meanwhile??? 31 Mar 2008 18:12:16 PST My love for this site has never waned. Just wanna say I luvvv ye all on both sides of the board for everything! ... and if anyone doesn't have kathy@nanaimo's Email Addy and wants it, just Email me and I'll pass it on to you (since she did say "feel free to share" :) osmia_lignaria@yahoo.com 31 Mar 2008 17:08:25 PST Hello, everybody at OL. Haven't had time to check in lately but I read something on the news that I wanted to post here. Shigemori NIshiwaki, the leader of the Japanese Research Whale Hunt in Antarctica this year, who is from the Institute of Cetacean Research, said in an interview about the whaling and SeaShephard, that after experiencing the harassment by SS during the hunting trip, many of the Japanese members onboard have left the project saying it will be too dangerous to be on the whaling ship because it's obvious the harassment by the anti-whaling groups will continue in the future, and they don't want to put their lives at risk. Some members who have left the project had worked for over 10 years but they made the decision as their family members didn't want them to stay on the life-threatening job. Nishiwaki said the most workers on the ship were terrified by the attacks by SS and feared that the boat might sink then there would be no chance of survival in the icy Antarctic water. WAY TO GO, SS! Tam@OC in CA 31 Mar 2008 13:52:07 PST Hi guys. Thanks to Osmia's help I've managed to transfer some of Mel's early greenpeace songs to tape including the requested "listen to the whales" If you want to receive this file, email me. Don't want to post my addy here but several of you have it so feel free to share it with others....k kathy@nanaimo, bc 31 Mar 2008 13:12:41 PST Let’s hope there is no whaling and dolphin-whacking going on with this product. http://snipurl.com/233i9 JayP@winnipeg 31 Mar 2008 13:11:57 PST Hmm! 'A Whale in the Chenango River' http://tinyurl.com/3x8x2z . 'Whaling scene found in 3,000-year-old picture' http://tinyurl.com/2rnl2k . 'Critics rap whaling sentences' http://tinyurl.com/2lappc . 'Endangered Ratty gets legal protection' http://tinyurl.com/3btr7z . Steve@UK 31 Mar 2008 11:59:56 PST "TV presenter Nigel Marven will be running the London Marathon in aid of our Protect Our Dolphins campaign. A huge thank you to all who have already supported him. If you haven't yet, will you help?" http://www.justgiving.com:80/nigelmarven allan@crawsnest 31 Mar 2008 10:31:22 PST Thank you, Paul & Helena for keeping us informed. I think a lot of OLers act now or even did it already. Doris@Germany 31 Mar 2008 07:57:20 PST We've posted an update story about the Robson Bight oil spill on our web site (www.orcalab.org). The tanker truck is almost certainly full of diesel fuel and must be removed before the orcas return. Please help convince the governments of BC & Canada that they have to do the cleanup before the orcas return. Thanks very much. Paul & Helena@OL 31 Mar 2008 06:04:32 PST "The Thinning Giant = Scientists say the gray whales that migrate past San Diego's shores each year are getting skinnier and arriving in Mexico later" http://tinyurl.com/29kce6 Eileen@Ottawa 31 Mar 2008 02:52:02 PST 'Five endangered New Zealand Kakapo parrots hatch; 91 now survive' http://tinyurl.com/28ofvf . 'New highway grid to transform Mekong region' http://tinyurl.com/2zbq8u . 'Solomons already suffers climate change' http://tinyurl.com/ywkj8f . 'Apathy About Global Warming May Be Result Of Increased Knowledge' http://tinyurl.com/ywd9hn . Steve@UK 31 Mar 2008 00:14:40 PST carole and i are so glad we have this spot of sanity to fall back on. thank you to paul and helena for all you do to keep us updated, to all who post valuable information even tho some of it is sad. there is great joy here too, keeping up with friends! we are looking forward to meeting some of you in person in a few months! julie@soon to be damp long beach, ca 30 Mar 2008 22:20:53 PST Canadian Coast Guard Rams Farley Mowat http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080330_2.html ej@duncan 30 Mar 2008 22:13:19 PST 'Concerns over safety of Mahia's friendly dolphin' http://tinyurl.com/2gbp36 . 'Why the white wilderness needs our care' http://tinyurl.com/2b8whp . 'Call for curbs on Antarctic ships' http://tinyurl.com/yq3xan . 'Wily red foxes coming back from extinction in Europe' http://tinyurl.com/yr5zrh . Steve@UK 30 Mar 2008 22:02:41 PST so i dont' follow politics or anything, but can someone "in a nutshell" explain to me this Loyle Hearn person... doesn't sound like he/she doesn't care for anything in the ocean from about 4 different articles on 4 different topics..... so how often do they change "minister of fisheries and oceans"? ej@duncan 30 Mar 2008 21:38:58 PST hey everyone! hope all is well... damn these nasty spammers... i would suggest having it so you have to sign in to orca live.. but then i can imagine that new people wouldn't want to sign up.. so it probably wouldn't be a good idea, but i talk alot at the "rectory" (well i don't comment much lately becuase it has been a bunch of nonsense... not talking about lolita anymore just people arguing with russ... its anoying... but i know that russ can kick people off with the IP addresses. maybe that would help? i dunno.... anyways, THANKS PAUL AND HELENA!!!!!! lots of love! ej@duncan 30 Mar 2008 21:26:47 PST Thanks very much Allan. We'll email you soon. Paul & Helena@OL 30 Mar 2008 12:30:27 PST Paul & Helena... I'd just like to thank you for all you have done to facilitate the exchanges of ideas and information through the community board. It is such a shame that it has recently been spoilt by the moronic self interest of the spammers... On the subject of alternatives, I suggested the addition of a 'security' field to the comment box. My brother is a web designer and has introduced security fields in all his 'forms'. He has told me they are a 'godsend' when it comes to defeating automated spam. If you required any help, I'm sure he would be more than pleased to help and advise you free of charge... Please don't hesitate to contact me if I can be of any assistance... In the meantime, all my best wishes go to you both... Haste ye back!!! allan@crawsnest 30 Mar 2008 11:35:01 PST Predictably, as soon as we announced that we were starting to stream live audio again, because our internet connection was stable, we started having problems again. Sorry about that. We did stop deliberately for an hour at 8pm last night, to support the "Earth Hour" initiative, but the ups & downs since then have been happenstance. Thanks, by the way, to those of you who have suggested alternatives to this comment board. We hope to bring it back in a new & safer form after a while, and appreciate your efforts to keep information & conversation flowing in the meantime. Paul & Helena@OL 30 Mar 2008 11:11:55 PST and orca's, sure too they be stars. sure too they be stars. :) b@bj 30 Mar 2008 10:06:02 PST :) them Stars Markus! amaging stars! b@nc great people makes them great stars.. <3's 30 Mar 2008 09:58:25 PST I want to congratulate all Canadians who participated last night with "lights out". I want to make a special thanks to the city of Toronto for being the only city to produce the most lights out from all of our major cities across Canada. Ontario also had the best outcome for having most lights out of all provinces in Canada. Way to go to everyone who participated :). Where I live, it was complete darkness for one hour or more. I actually got to see the stars in the sky :). It was most spectacular. Markus@Canada 30 Mar 2008 09:23:01 PST wait, what i meant was: i hope the boat noise "does" subside as it subsides. There, a mathamatical equation,, Calculus. steady stream here, pop, snap, paul helena.. opps boat in the distance.. dive dive ... <3's ~ bj@king, nc (south of the sauratown mountians) 30 Mar 2008 09:19:42 PST opps, i was absolutely wrong in last post. I hope the noise does not subside, as the orca's do subside. SUNday Sunday! <3's ~ b@nc 30 Mar 2008 09:09:46 PST damn, even i had to reduce audio of realplayer. damn, hopefully the boat noise subsides if the orca dive. I hope so. :( bw@n.carolina 30 Mar 2008 08:57:03 PST boat. ~ row row row your boat, swiftly out the way ~~~ b@nc 30 Mar 2008 08:52:36 PST intermediac live feed here this sunday, SUNday afternoon. nows seem steady. Aqua, bubbles, occasional snap, or two. hark, distant bark, shhhh... echo maybe, ... shhhh.. rock ten, snap, b@nc.usa.earth.solar.milky. ... NO boat noise, Beautiful this SUNday Sunday AM! <3's ~ 30 Mar 2008 08:44:24 PST a 1, a 2, a 1 2 3 4 Orca doddle doo! :) brent@nc 30 Mar 2008 08:34:25 PST Hi everyone. I'm currently moving from the north to the middle of germany (near Krefeld) and wondered if someone who likes orcas is also from this area, cause I don't know anybody here, yet. Cheers. Sven@NRW, Germany 30 Mar 2008 07:24:44 PST When your kids, or grand kids, complain about walking a hundred yards or so to school in the rain. Tell them this story! 'Crocodile crossing for SA pupils' http://tinyurl.com/2yrza5 . ' Marine Mammal Center Finds New Use For Old Military Base' http://tinyurl.com/2qlr5e . Steve@UK 30 Mar 2008 03:12:26 PST 'Cuckoo collector's summer ritual' http://tinyurl.com/yqlzsy . Steve@UK 30 Mar 2008 02:48:05 PST streaming live audio again :) bow's and wow's paul helena leo ~ Thank You's b@nc 30 Mar 2008 00:43:42 PST beverly crawford* los angeles ca, - "if He doesn't do any thing else, He's done enough!" :) amen ~ b@nc 30 Mar 2008 00:37:05 PST wow, comment board closies. :( really? if so, so then guess really start blog ( sometimes i really need to comment). Y, ol comment good, 95% of time, is it money? or, a sign of the times... what's his name, up in the golden river area? anyways, and how's, here's my post, (last it may be) Music, Ruebin dude from tv show, i think: no, different group: William's Brothers: """" I'm just a nobody,. tryinging to tell Everybody,.. About Somebody, who that can Save Anybody!!! :) brent@wow praise the Lord, damn the devil :) poof devil, poof! LOVE! 30 Mar 2008 00:07:22 PST 'Wildlife fleeing rising river' http://tinyurl.com/ywfmeb . 'Woman mauled by 2 cheetahs at wildlife sanctuary' http://tinyurl.com/yrctsu . 'Eagle draws crowd on Seattle sidewalk' http://tinyurl.com/ypgtow . 'Oil, gas group fumes over possible losses from wildlife rules' http://tinyurl.com/2ed5q3 . 'Human noses 'can detect danger'' http://tinyurl.com/24dmxm . 'Seamus Garvey wants to "store the wind"' http://tinyurl.com/2ar6tl . Steve@UK 29 Mar 2008 23:54:25 PST Paul & Helena, thanks for the reminder. For anyone who would like to continue post links and make conservation, I have opened a topic at my forum at orcinusorca.nl You're all most welcom during the maintenace period at http://www.takeforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1025&mforum=orcinusorca#1025 You have to register before you can post. See you all there. Jan@Netherlands 29 Mar 2008 22:48:40 PST Thank you Paul and Helena for everything you do, with regards to the comments section closing , I am sure everyone agrees we shall miss it, but we shall survive and if it makes things easier for you to deal with, that's also a bonus. :-) Cantab@NZ 29 Mar 2008 22:22:33 PST