Lost Whale

This story is kind of cool, but also very sad at the same time. A gray whale was spotted in the waters off Israel. The cool part of this is that there are no gray whales in the Atlantic. They were hunted to extinction in the 1700s. There are two groups of grey whales in the Pacific. The researchers think that the Northwest Passage was ice free for a time in the summer and the whale swam through and got hopelessly lost. The possibility of the whale making a safe return trip to the Pacific was considered "rather slim." Thus, the sad part of this is that there are no gray whales in the Atlantic. A lonely whale, all alone, half a world away from his kin, with no hope of returning. It reminds of me of this penguin and makes me want to cry.