Wife and I were at a beach today at Centre Island park in Bayville. It was a beautiful fall day (1st day of autumn too). As 5pm approached the few other beach goers dragged away their chairs and umbrellas, leaving us nearly alone on the beach.
Looking out at the calm water on the nearly flood tide my eye caught something that could have been a wave, but was not. It was the back of a large sea creature. It stuck around and surfaced (there were probably more than 1) close to shore while seeming to make some lunges into the shallows after bait fish. Then it circled back the same stretch of beach, perhaps twice more.
Quite a crowd of locals came out with cellphone cameras, mega-binoculars & such. There probably 100 people still at the beach by the time we left when the action seemed to be dying down, as in, they were moving off.
I was told by a local that they were Pilot whales, which is indeed what they were after questioning mr. google. He also said they had been reported a few days earlier in Hempstead Harbor, so they may be headed back out east, or not.
Anyway local boaters (and you know who you are) keep an eye out for a pod of Pilot whales in your area.
Apparently there was a Humpback whale sighting off of Stamford about a month ago as well.
Whales return to Long Island Sound after long hiatus | Fox News
There is something a bit fishy, er, or this is whale of story.
Looking out at the calm water on the nearly flood tide my eye caught something that could have been a wave, but was not. It was the back of a large sea creature. It stuck around and surfaced (there were probably more than 1) close to shore while seeming to make some lunges into the shallows after bait fish. Then it circled back the same stretch of beach, perhaps twice more.
Quite a crowd of locals came out with cellphone cameras, mega-binoculars & such. There probably 100 people still at the beach by the time we left when the action seemed to be dying down, as in, they were moving off.
I was told by a local that they were Pilot whales, which is indeed what they were after questioning mr. google. He also said they had been reported a few days earlier in Hempstead Harbor, so they may be headed back out east, or not.
Anyway local boaters (and you know who you are) keep an eye out for a pod of Pilot whales in your area.
Apparently there was a Humpback whale sighting off of Stamford about a month ago as well.
Whales return to Long Island Sound after long hiatus | Fox News
There is something a bit fishy, er, or this is whale of story.