Popular Post cuniagau Posted April 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2023 What an absolutely awesome day metal detecting on one of my beaches Thursday. I didn’t find much with my metal detector but saw the best treasure ever. There was a pod of migrating gray whales that were spyhopping, spouting and breaching for about 20 minutes just offshore and down the beach from my viewpoint. I believe that there were at least 5. Spyhopping is when they go vertical and “stand on their tail”, come straight up with their head and look around at the landscape for landmarks so that they know where they are on the migration trek. I think that maybe an older whale was teaching a younger one how to spyhop as I saw this amazing feat 8-10 times. They also breached in the normal way of just coming up and spouting and slapping their fins. One almost came completely out of the water. And I am talking about 40-50 feet long whales. They were just massive! It is just a marvel of nature. And they have been doing the migration for hundreds of years if not thousands. After the whales were out of sight a pod of 20-30 dolphins came from the other direction, breaching completely out of the water playing their way south. It almost looked like they were in a feeding frensy except they were moving way to fast. Not all of the treasure I find at the beach is 14K. LOL Have a great day!!! Cuniagau 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCR Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 Yes, just being out in a natural environment is often it's own reward. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 That's a really fun to see! We see the humpback whales in Maui doing the same type of things. They show up after Christmas to bread and then head back to Alaska in spring time. My wife loves to go out on the pontoon boat trips whale watching. When they go under the boat in that clear water is kind of scary. They are bigger than the boat! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okara gold Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 That must have been an awesome sight, I can only imagine. I've never seen a whale but here in Florida there are plenty of dolphins that do some acrobatic feats. It's amazing to watch a pod of them chasing and corralling a group of fish for lunch or ride a wave into shore just like a surfer would. Their body almost completely out of the water, just catching a wave. Another sight I never grow tired of seeing are Manatee. Big, slow moving and curious. I've had a few occasions where one will sneak right up within a few feet of you and gently swim away. Nothing like seeing a big, wide dark object suddenly appear when you're in chest deep water. It will get your attention and your heart rate going! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King-Of-Bling Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 All that and not 1 picture ? Same experience not long ago at Aliso. Beautiful sight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuniagau Posted April 30, 2023 Author Share Posted April 30, 2023 3 minutes ago, King-Of-Bling said: All that and not 1 picture ? Same experience not long ago at Aliso. Beautiful sight. KOB, I think I would have missed half the experience had I had a camera with me. The pictures never do it justice anyway. Cuniagau 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 A good day of detecting..👁️🗨️👁️🗨️ With some treasure from the sea ! Arrrrrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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