I really wonder about the idea that whales are trying to head out to sea but their concept of the ocean does not include the hook of cape cod.

   In the pod I saw swimming, it was even more conceivable that they were lost rather than suicidal. It would be easy to imagine that the marsh of Wellfleet bay, that they were heading into, could extend across the cape into the ocean.

   When I first arrived at the bay I heard a number of strange sounds. Many of them were birds I had never heard before. Some of the sounds were very strange like recordings of whale sounds. Since the whales were mostly in the water it seems unlikely they were whale sounds from the whales. Perhaps they could have been a broadcast to scare the whales from one of the boats.

      Paul