Whale Watching in CA, I will be traveling to Bakersfield CA in the next couple of days and spending some time there and in Santa Monica. Anyone know of somewhere I could go and take a whale watching trip while there? (within a reasonable driving distance from either location)
posted by jseven on May 25, 2009 - 5 answers

What's a good edible substitute for whale blubber? [more inside]
posted by NotMyselfRightNow on Apr 24, 2009 - 20 answers

WhaleFilter: My fiancé is trying to find a film he vaguely remembers about whales. [more inside]
posted by Spinneret on Feb 14, 2009 - 4 answers

Just finished watching an episode of Whale Wars, and I was wondering: are there any groups that do this sort of thing on land? Meaning, volunteer, nonprofessional or otherwise NGO-type people who confront and interfere with poachers in the wild, head-on and dangerously?
posted by El Curioso on Nov 14, 2008 - 6 answers

Can you help me remember this barely remembered cartoon from my childhood? A community of alien looking people live on a floating island and go out in flying boats to catch flying whales. Every so often one of them would turn blue and die, and they would throw him down a well. The well was actually a hole passing through the island and as the body fell it would turn into a new sky whale. Any ideas?
posted by Artw on Oct 17, 2008 - 9 answers

I have just read an article in the New Scientist about the Chile Whaling Conference. The article describes how Japan is allowed to catch 1000 whales each year for scientific purposes, yet has been accused of allowing some of the meat to make it's way to the dinner table. I lived in Japan a couple of years ago, and every supermarket seemed to sell small quantities of whale meat, and it wasn't a particularly rare sight in many restaurants. Would this meat be part of this, presumeably illegal, "for scientific purposes only", catch? Or do they have a separate quota for food use?
posted by mairuzu on Jun 25, 2008 - 3 answers

I am looking for the name of the artist who created the “over capacity whale” and “technically wrong robot” illustrations for Twitter. Any information or pointers would be amazingly helpful.
posted by grant on Jun 19, 2008 - 11 answers

After being swallowed alive by a whale, what is the best course of action that might result in your survival? [more inside]
posted by (bb|[^b]{2}) on Sep 27, 2007 - 33 answers

Has anyone ever done time in prison for harassing a whale? [more inside]
posted by jason's_planet on Jul 10, 2007 - 10 answers

A long time ago I cherished a shirt. It had a drawing of a whale on it, below text that read "Save The Cows." A speech bubble attached to the whale read "I am not a cow." Either that or the roles were reversed. Or they could have been different animals entirely - though I doubt that. Where did this adorable tee come from? There is nothing - NOTHING - more inside. Except your answers. I hope.
posted by thejoshu on Jan 3, 2007 - 10 answers

Whalefilter: What are the Japanese whaling fleet researching? [more inside]
posted by scodger on Dec 31, 2006 - 7 answers

This bone was found on a Cape Cod, Massachusetts beach this week. It is about 3" tall and about 3" from tip to tip of the "horns." It looks like a vertebra of some type, but I can find no images of similar ones online. Any marine biologists out there care to tell me what kind of a bone it is? Other images inside. [more inside]
posted by Rock Steady on Oct 17, 2006 - 11 answers

Is this the installation shown in the film "The Squid and the Whale"? [more inside]
posted by LongDrive on May 11, 2006 - 6 answers

Foggy photo of a kayaker with a whale surfacing alongside. Anyone remember where? [more inside]
posted by figment on Mar 21, 2005 - 9 answers