Video of whale jump on yak

[fishfool]

http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?ID=306

[Capt. Jack Sparrow]

Not real; TV commercial for a power drink in Japan

[kayakfishgirl]

Yeah, read about that on kayakfishingstuff.com this am.
tricks of the computer.
'Andrea

[fishfool]

Jeez, I didnt know any diferant.

It happened off of sandbridge one or two years ago when a whale was plowing through a school of bunker. A guy saw it heading towards a yakker and got a picture just in time. I will post pics when possible.

K...here's redemtion.
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=73789&ran=59974

[JDSeiders]

There was another pic of a close encounter at The North End this past summer. I had a chance meeting with the guy while on a sales appointment--he works for the company that just built houses on Gum Road in Ches. He said he was terrified because his son or daughter was on board with him and thought the worst might happen. Neat pic though.

[kayakfishgirl]

A co worker had that picture form Va Beach on my desk when I got back from a yak fish trip.
It's amazing but wouldn't you think that guy could have had a heart attack!
I would freak out but I would love to yak around them.
I am trying to convience my boyfriend to go with me and do this. My luck the whale would knock me over.
I have always wondered if they know we are up there.
Can they see us or do they care?
I know Va Beach offers a package deal for whale watching.

'Andrea

[fishfool]

The Inuit used sealskin/whalebone kayaks completely around the arctic circle (they traveled around Siberia also, eons before gringos). The primary foodsource for killer whales are seals. Lots of sealskin kayaks were mistaken by killer whales as dinner. Being the same shape, it is almost like floating around in a big seal shaped killer whale lure. An Inuit fisherman would sometimes sit motionless for hours next to an ice flow with a drawn spear, waiting for a seal or fish to zip by under his kayak. Given the light conditions in the arctic circle, where there is nothing but grey or white hues, and the water and air is crystal clear (visiblilty can be 200 miles on land): somtimes a fisherman would come back with the "thousand yard stare"-(post traumatic stress), mesmerized from staring into the water, motionless all day (and scared silly from being worried about becoming a snack for orca. there are stories of kayak fishermen having a close call with a whale, or becoming so stressed that they never got in a kayak again to fish.

I paraphrased that from "A Fourth World". When I read that chapter I was convinced that the Inuit kayak fishermen were some of the bravest/noble hunters that have ever lived. I was sold on kayaking from then on.

They had much more kahuunas than any supergaybasspro speeding around with a corvette glitterboat with $5,000 in equipment and electronics.