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A gray whale was found in Keil Cove April 27 and then drifted to Lime Point in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, experts said. The whale was still alive and underweight when researchers found it, and it “spent 47 days exploring San Francisco Bay.” Another gray whale was found washed up May 3 in the Port of Oakland and a third was found May 4 at Angel Island State Park. Experts weren’t able to perform an animal autopsy on any of the three whales to determine the cause of death but collected samples for research. Four gray whales and one fin whale have been found dead in the San F...

The whales spend the winter off Mexico’s waters, then they head back north and stay off the coast of California in spring and summer. Scientists believe the numbers observed on shore are a fraction of the real die-off. They say many more die at sea and are never observed, instead floating offshore or sinking to the bottom. Although the gray whales are still migrating north from Baja California, fewer whales have stranded this year than in the two previous years — just 68 so far. While the death of these whales is tragic, Milstein said, it offers an opportunity to “better understand wh...

© Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times Muir Beach saw many visitors and a gray whale carcass on April 17, 2021.Three more gray whales have washed up dead in the San Francisco Bay, adding to the fatal beachings of five others in the region over the last month, including a 46-foot fin whale, scientists from the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences said Thursday. In 2019, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it was going to investigate an unusually high number of gray whales found dead along the North American west coast. The investigation is con...

The most recent whales won't have their causes of death determined because of inaccessible or unsafe locations, and the Marine Mammal Center is in talks with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration about possibly safely towing the whale carcasses into the open ocean so they can naturally decompose there. "Over the last few years, our experts have observed gray whales frequenting San Francisco Bay in greater numbers and for longer periods of time. These whales are at increased risk from human activity, which is why we are committed to better understanding the ongoing challenges and...

"I couldn't live out there in all that fog." This comment, so often offered when someone found I was a resident of the Avenues used to puzzle me. I thought it wasn't foggy enough. Sure it's often overcast in the Richmond and Sunset, but that isn't real fog. As opposed to the dull slate of overcast skies, fog is a sensual banquet. You can taste fog, feel the wet mist on your skin, see how its cottony skein erases the world halfway down the block. And fog, so silent, is always accompanied here by the doleful bellowing of foghorns. As kids we knew the foghorn variations. We mimicked the cadences...