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Humphrey the Whale is a humpback whale that twice deviated from his Mexico to Alaska migration by entering San Francisco Bay. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This behavior is unusual for a humpback whale, and Humphrey attracted wide media attention when entering the bay in both 1985 and 1990.
Delta and Dawn, also known as the Delta whales, are two humpback whales, a mother and her calf, who entered San Francisco Bay in early May 2007. They swam up the Sacramento River approximately 90 nautical miles (170 km) upstream from the Golden Gate , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] about 20 miles (32 km) further inland than Humphrey the Whale had gone two decades ...
Humphrey the Whale is arguably the most widely publicized humpback whale in history, [7] [8] having errantly entered San Francisco Bay twice, departing from his Mexico to Alaska migration. Each excursion resulted in dramatic estuarine rescues in 1985 and 1990 by the center, assisted by the United States Coast Guard and hundreds of volunteers.
In addition, the agency recorded 14 whale entanglements with fishing gear from May 17 to Oct. 20 of this year, four of them from commercial crabbers, one more than would prompt the end of the rest ...
A view over the estuary from above Coast Guard Island.Alameda is on the left, with Oakland on the right and San Francisco Bay in the distance. The Oakland Estuary is the strait in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, separating the cities of Oakland and Alameda and the Alameda Island from the East Bay mainland.
Frosty, estimated to be almost 5 years old, has only been spotted a handful of times while swimming with its CA216 pod, making sightings of the whale off the California coast “extremely rare ...
Bathing Pavilion, Neptune Beach, Alameda, California in 1917. From the 1880s until the U.S. entry into World War II in December, 1941, the area around the visitor center was part of Neptune Beach, an amusement park and resort community that featured bathing spas and waterfront houses. It was formally called Alameda Beach and nicknamed "Coney ...
A gray whale surfaces in the Morro Bay Harbor near Morro Rock on Thursday, March 14, 2024, as paddle boarders and kayakers look on. The whale has been been spotted in the harbor for the last few days.