Sick gray whale 'Waylon' visits San Diego Harbour to recover

8:27 PM Fri 7 May 2010 GMT

'Whale tail in San Diego Harbour' .

Sailors may have sighted the gray whale first in San Diego Harbour, but soon there were other boaters, tour boats and media helicopters, as a sickly whale took residency in the Harbour for a week during its migration, apparently to recover. After a week of eating on the Harbour seabed and then surfacing for eager locals, the whale left to continue its migration. The California gray whale made frequent appearances after first surfacing near Shelter Island April 19, and there's nothing like a visiting whale to entrance the human population. After practically starring in its own San Diego "reality show" ...

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by The Log/Nancy Knudsen

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