A WHALE'S "GOOD-BYE."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18317, 6 February 1923, Page 7

A WHALE'S "GOOD-BYE."

• IN WEST COAST SOUNDS. MOOSE SEEN AT SUPPER COVE [BY ! TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORBE3PONDENT.I , v . * CHRISTCHUECH. Monday.,' !, > A, party of <Invercargill residents, who •'• have ; returned from ■ a cruise jto '.the >; West •.'.■..:•.■,:■■■ <\ Coast ;■ Sounds, report that .at Wet Jacket . > Arm: a most sensatioual incident ,-"', ( The party were out boating at might, and i suddenly the sea in i- front of them was I lashed into foam and irradiated ' with i ; phoaphorence. - < j , For a moment -it - was .hard .to, decide.;.; ■'. J what > had occurred, but ; while the boa* I rocked perilously 1 : it was discovered that jit was a large whale that.had dived after ,-- r j,bidding the, party a sort of "good-bye" by m vigorously ,flapping". hiß tail;. The situa- ' tion was ; unenviable, ( and is well summed up in a, sentence from a letter by one of the ladies present to her father after the *' : incident:-£ "Had the whale delayed having us 'good-bye' until we got closer, you ' j would not now be reading this letter'. ' ,' The'boat was then steered for home, , i but made':little) headway before it got I "jammed" in a, school Of black? fish and' ■~ ■the rowers had sto work % hard while the I man ?in - the bow pushed ■■ the fish : out of | the track with a : pole to get.through. V; '.}: !I' 'It ■ was '• at '; Supper ; Cove that the •; elusive'; : I moose ' Was discovered. While ' th« party ■■ j was on' deck viewing the scenery, :: two<V '{ huge i animals burst through the thick :•; scrub skirting the beach some ■■•'distance ;: from them, . and p stood .in full view. , : Cameras were. speedily sought, and,;' after j a good deal of •;.' manoeuvring, the moose'•' j was* successfully . photographed. ' ' ■■',