Whale In the Delaware River...

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by Kelly

I took my kids to see him today. We followed the news copters and he was easily spotted from the bank. Poor thing! I am very distraught and hope they do take some sort of action if he remains lost. Animals are my passion.

He keeps swimming NORTH up the darn river and not towards the ocean. They say he is swimming strongly and staying submerged for five to seven minutes which a sick whale would not do, so that is good news. He is so white I was quite stunned. I know belugas are white and all but still, he is gorgeous and very large to be trucking up the freaking dumpy Delaware. I hope they help him out!

We have a Marine Mammal stranding center in our state that is very very good as well as an aquarium with alot of highly educated marine biologists so hopefully he will be ok.

All I keep thinking about is how much crap is in the Delaware...especially oil from the spill a few months ago. I'm sure he'll be fine--he's got plenty of food--that's for sure and people have been instructed to keep away or they'll be fined. If something were to happen to him, the aquarium could nurse him back to health and then set him free again. This is the second time it happened but I this is apparently the longest it's ever stayed in the river. Maybe tomorrow he'll be on the right track--hopefully.