Gray whales

Slow moving and covered in barnacles this dinosaur like whale feeds on the ocean floor.

Gray whale in front of the Esther G II.
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A juvenile gray whale surfaces.
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Barnacle patterns are the defining features used in identification.
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A rainbow appears in the exhaled breath of a gray whale.
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A gray whale usually has no need to fluke, but I don't mind so much.
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