WASHINGTON COAST — A whale expert is reporting a rare sighting of blue whales off the Washington coast. The largest animals on the planet have also been sighted in unusual numbers offshore of Oregon this summer.
Biologists John Calambokides and Kiirsten Flynn of the Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia set out from Westport in late July to survey for humpback and gray whales when a very tall spout caught their eye.
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