Whale of a Mystery - Chapter 4

For the first three days of this mystery go to: Chapters 1-3

Day four...where will Spock and Comet be this morning?....down in Puget Sound?...out in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, like yesterday morning?...or back up closer to San Juan Island?...

..I left early to see if I could find the whales...oh, but there is so much water out there, I'd never find them...but then I couldn't just sit at home and hope someone else would....

I scanned and drove farther south, scanned and drove again...and again...I got a rumor that there were whales coming up island so I back tracked and scanned and waited...and waited...I was just about to give up with "kwuuffff" or however you spell the sound of a whale exhaling...

...there were Spock and Comet slowly moving up island - again against the ebbing currents - at a steady pace...

...as I watched them approach I saw Comet change direction and move in toward the shore...then Spock changed direction too and then I saw Spock logging for just a few seconds...those changes lasted less than a minute and then they began to move north at a steady pace....that was at about 10 a.m.

...a short while later when they passed Andrews Bay, Comet made a direction change...after a fish maybe...it was only once and then back on track with mom up ahead.

I think a lot of people are wondering if they are eating or not...so now every move they make that's different from the slow travel mode is...well is different, is all I can say...maybe catching a fish, maybe not...

by 12:15 they were about 1/2 mile west of Battleship Island...
at 1:18 they were headed for Mouat Point...

they kept going north...I think Mouat Pt. is a deciding point for the whales...will they go Boundary Pass or will they go Swanson Channel or will they turn and come back down...this time however, it's not a normal situation... here's the answer...

at about 3 p.m. Katherine, dog Tucker and crew left Spock and Comet after they had gone through Active Pass. She also commented that early on there was a bit of milling and two breaches off Henry Island, most likely by Comet K-38...but that was it...

at 6:15 p.m. Capt. Jim said they were heading toward East Pt.

see my short - oh so very short video clip...so nice to see them..yet everyone is concerned for them.
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more questions and ponderings:

..are the others out on the outer coast waiting for Spock and Comet to show up...who 'hugs the tree' so to speak...are the ones not here 'hugging the tree' out there on the outer coast and Spock and Comet doing the same here in the inland waters...therefore not finding each other...I hope that's not the case...

...how will they find each other?...will it take Granny, the matriarch of the community to bring J Pod in and they stumble upon one another?...

...or will it be Skagit K-13 - Spock's mom and Comet's grandmother to bring the rest of the family in so they will find each other?...

...when's the next salmon run??????? ....will that help?????