tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75970199547179431052024-03-12T17:37:01.786-07:00the quest for the Garston Killer WhaleAnnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088508222894054127noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597019954717943105.post-67314335997060642842012-09-20T09:28:00.002-07:002012-09-20T09:28:34.113-07:00just the facts mam...<div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Garston Killer Whale<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<strong>45 year old Widnes born environmentalist, with a long list
of experiences and tales of conservation at the cutting edge’, my two great
passions in life are music and the natural environment – a graduate of local
authority Ranger Services and 10 years delivering Further Education, including
Countryside Management and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tree Surgery
and travelling the country observing wildlife, with a particular love of
mammals, reptiles and birds,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scottish
islands, field archaeology and working with people and communities.<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
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<strong>Sharing a house with various pet Lizards, musical
instruments and optical equipment<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
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<strong>Described, by himself, as ‘a bad all rounder’ on most things
– even fungi! – and happy to chat with random strangers on local nature
reserves – chief identification features normally a red face and an obscure
70’s rock band T-shirt, one man with one obsession – the pursuit of the truth
regarding the Garston Killer Whale<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">When?<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Circa 1975…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">School
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Our Lady of
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Baths<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Garston
Public baths<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Orca/Killer
Whale (Orcinis orca)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">“Just
the facts, mam?”<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I went
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I saw
Dolphins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">A double
Decker was involved.(Green?) (Crosville?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I got wet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">I wouldn’t
do the job I do now if it didn’t happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The
quest<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">To quote an
infamous 1980s Sci –Fi show “the truth is out there”, which is why this site
has been set up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Help?<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">That’s right
– a Killer Whale. I think that at the end of the performance a real,live Killer
whale did a few circuits of the pool, jumped up and out and splashed everyone
in the place…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The research
so far as narrowed it down to – a possibility! Facts so far, there where Orcas
doing shows at the time – and in the area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">This blog
will reveal my research and catalogue myself and my crews experiences tracking
Orcas throughout the UK and Europe and update and blog from our Summer
expedition – more of which later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">The site
will also include musings about music – my other passion, Single Malts,
Literature – great and otherwise and other points of interest and some
philosophical musings (nothing too heavy, mind…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Do YOU have
any information that can confirm or dispel the above?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Did you
attend the school? Did you visit the baths, or remember the shows?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Where you
involved in training or putting on the shows?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Did you
encounter the Garston Killer whale itself?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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