Loons, bald eagles and seals are common sights, and you may even spot a whale offshore.
Recently, the island was abuzz when a whale shark was spotted near the ship.
For he made his home in that fish's abdomen, oh, Jonah he lived in a whale.
When a whale blows, the dishes catch the spray thrown up by the animal.
The most he heard, from sonar echoes in 1997, was very like a whale.
The expansive play area, built by RipBang Studios, features a whale made of steel, wood decking and rope netting.
It has been designed to switch off as soon as a broadcasting ship comes within 1km of a whale.
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But if enough rich tourists want to behold a whale shark, eating them may soon look like a foolish option.
When she spots a whale from 1, 000 feet in the air, Taylor clicks the mouse that's taped to the cabin wall.
There is film footage from 1970 of a whale in Florence, Oregon, in the United States, being disposed of by explosion.
Rust and Bone, about a whale trainer whose life is irrevocably changed by a tragic accident, has nine nominations in all.
Prepare for a wild, wind-in-your-hair ride over the waves -- all totally worth it when you are close enough to smell a whale's breath.
When the IWC was formed in 1946, it inherited a whale sanctuary dating from 1937 and covering one quarter of the Antarctic.
One panel features a whale in stripes of yellow, green, lilac and blue, its mouth wide open like a cavern of infinity.
It would involve sinking a whale that has died in a stranding.
Others become entangled in fishing rope, a particularly grotesque phenomenon since the thick ropes can rub through a whale's skin and hit bone.
The worms, whose official genus name is Osedax, are about 1 inch (3 centimeters) long and were discovered on a whale carcass in 2002.
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As with many buildings in Europe, the Petschek villa is scored and crossed, like the hide of a whale, with the history of its accidents.
In total, UPS owns 230 jets ranging in size from Boeing 757s to 747-400s, some of which have ferried everything from a whale shark to an iceberg chunk.
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So far, no serious effort to kill a whale has even been made, despite favourable weather and the presence of whales in the waters near the Makahs' village.
Depending on the circumstances a number of licences need to be granted before a whale can be moved and disposed of, including from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO).
It was originally thought that the mammal was a minke whale, but the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group now believes it is more likely to be a fin or a sei whale.
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' And as for whether an actual squid should ever marry a whale, I think most marine biologists, and even Dr. Phil, will tell you a 60-foot mollusk and a large mammal have no chance at a long-term relationship.
Imagining the prophet Jonah boarding his ship in Jaffa just days before he was cast into the sea and swallowed by a whale, I piled into the Israeli girls' car and continued my strange little pilgrimage.
But he is taken for a ride by the unscrupulous Cat and Fox, almost eaten up by an evil giant, swallowed up in the belly of a whale, before eventually escaping from his wooden shell to become a real person.
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