The events of Monday and video by the Marineland Right Whale Project were on the evening news. To view, copy and paste this link into your browser:
Alternatively, search on “2 right whale calves spotted + News4Jax.”
Next, we watched Right Whale #4040, Chiminea, and calf swim steadily northward during the last two weeks. We began to think their northward migration was underway. But no! In the afternoon of Monday, 11 January, the pair made a U-Turn off Crescent Beach, and yesterday again crossed past the Matanzas Inlet, and by mid-afternoon were approaching Marineland. Did the mother decide to linger in the southern waters, perhaps because the calf was not ready for the migration? Will we see more of her in Flagler County and to the south?
Lastly, several more mother-calf pairs have been sighted. The count now stands at nine. Several of these were in the Ponte Vedra area. Will they come south into our search area? We are perpetually optimistic.
