Check out the whales: They're going south early

Check out the whales: They're going south early: "Check out the whales: They're going south early
Oregon Coast - Migrating gray whales have been spotted, with a peak in a few weeks
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
RICHARD L. HILL

Get out the binoculars -- it's whale-watching season on the Oregon Coast.

Gray whales already have been spotted heading south to their wintering and breeding lagoons in Mexico. The 6,000-mile migration of 20,000 whales from their Alaska feeding grounds will last through February.

The migration will peak during the next few weeks, when about 30 whales will pass the coast every hour."