43 Replies to “And How Was Your Day?”

  2. Smart little bird brain. Of course the deprived the Orcas of a meal. I’m not sure that’s wise when you’re in such a flimsy tippy little boat.

    1. Yup, be sure to stand up in the boat when there are huge killer whales hunting the bird that just hopped into your boat.

      Lemme guess, they are nature lovers?

      I worked with a couple of guys who encountered a huge shark while fishing offshore Newfoundland.
      They both got down low in the boat and hung on and tried not to look like food while it made a couple of circles around them.

    3. Years ago, while I was finishing my second master’s degree, we had a visiting scholar from Europe in our lab.

      Here he comes to Canada, the second-largest country in the world, with a variety of scenery and the thing that really excited him was that he could go–wait for it!–whale watching with his fellow snobby Euroweenies.

      He was also thrilled that he could readily go to the mountains. (Were the Alps bulldozed flat or something?) Then again, he was the sort who probably thought that roughing it was staying in a hotel that didn’t get at least 2 stars in the Michelin guide.

      Mind you, I wasn’t completely surprised at this. He held Canadians in contempt, considering us little more boorish bumpkins and hillbillies. On the other hand, his country is one of those that’s been subjected to “cultural enrichment”, far worse than we have it here.

      1. You should have been a Canadian visiting in Oklahoma back in 1985 long before the internet and cellphones and little of the outside world existed. Not that they were ignorant people, they just had very little information beyond newspapers and limited televisions. Still working hard to afford a luxury like an expensive television.
        They figured Canadians still lived in Igloos and many didn’t know where Canada was.
        Just lack of information back then.
        Sort of shows how trust in mainstream media was absolute. Not knowing the messages are being edited over the decades.

        1. Jojo – there used to be postcards showing the border with green grass on the US side and about two feet of snow on the Canadian side.

          1. If you could locate on of those today, I’ll bet it would be worth about 1.2 million. On second thought, maybe that just applies to hockey cards.

    4. Me. I’m disappointed! I wanted at least the boat bunted/dumped like an ice flow, or the Orca climbing in.
      Probably tasted survival suit before and backed off. The “tourists” could have at least tested their gear in the water, especially their camera gear.

      1. I’m with ya PO’ed. Dump the boat and let the KILLER WHALES have at ’em.
        Killer Whales! I know the names have been “cleaned up” for/by the environ mental types but I’m told by the natives on the coast that they are non-disriminating in their diets unlike the manatees.

        1. The one that is several orders of magnitude more capable than yours. Indeed, you re so far beneath me, that you can’t even comprehend the distance. Same as UnMe really.

    6. Yep…I really thought it was going to be one of those *This does not end well* vids!

  6. Early Antarctic explorers noticed that killer whales would swim under small ice floes with a seal on top and tip over the ice floe to get at the seal. The explorers avoided tempting the killer whales by not walking on small ice flows, if they could avoid it.

    1. AI has learned to code and is working on programming. IT staff are already losing their jobs to it.

    1. I was sure it was him, that’s why I was cheering so hard for him. If the KW’s had got him they would have to deal with Steve Dallas.

      1. they would have to deal with Steve Dallas

        When he’s sober or sane.

  11. In other news, Major Biden has been banished to Delaware after tearing a lump out of an aide.

    The first time a dog turns on a human being should be his last. The first time he tears a lump out of a globalist, he should be showered with praise and treats.

    Attaboy, Major. God willing once that awful old lady gets sent to the human pound, you’ll find a good home at last.

  13. So what, when will you learn that mother nature does not provide guaranteed hunting success like McD’s drive through. I glad the little guy found refuge , and saved it’s life, survival is also part of nature. As to the tourists, good for them.

  14. I doubt the orcas will suffer. One penguin wasn’t going to make much of a difference.
    Besides it was probably more of a game for them. They had young accompanying them so they were also likely teaching the young ones how to play ‘chase (and eat) the penguin’.

  15. Yeah I cheered for the bird.
    Orcas are awesome. Got very close to a pod off Vancouver island in ’04. But a bigger boat. Could’ve nearly reached out and touched one.
    You don’t f**k with smart animals that also eat great white sharks.
    Have also seen video of them rushing right onto shore to steal a seal off the beach. Patagonia I think.

  17. I bet more than one of the rafters wanted to talk about pushing the penguin back in to save themselves.

  18. That darling little penguin deserves a round of applause. I’d say he is smarter and braver than any politician we have in Canada at this moment.

  19. Orcas have achieved sacred status on the green left coast. Forty years ago I was representing a forest company licensee on a multi-agency field tour in an unlogged watershed on Northern Vancouver Island which was eventually partially preserved to nominally “protect the view-scape and nearby rubbing beach gravel” of resident pods of Killer Whales (actually to placate Whale watching lobbyists as well as virtually any and all ENGOs). There was an elderly federal fisheries officer among them who I managed to take aside to privately ask about the actual fisheries issues involved. He told me that that watershed had little fisheries production value and that as far as Killer Whales were concerned, he recalled that all fisheries patrol boats as late as the early 60s had fifty caliber machine guns mounted on the bows and their orders were to shoot all “blackfish” on sight. Those were the days when managing a wild species meant controlling predators. Today, anyone who gets “too” close to them in a boat can be fined for harassment.

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