LOS ANGELES TIMES - Labor Day weekend may have signaled the unofficial end of summer, but the sighting on Sunday of two rarely encountered white dolphins off Orange County is a glowing reminder that this magnificent viewing season seems far from over.
In fact, aside from thousands of dolphins, there remain at least a dozen blue whales in our midst, loitering like gargantuan cattle — and feeding on tiny krill — in and around the San Pedro Channel.
And somewhere off the coast, perhaps off Southern California, is the white blue whale sighted in late July, off San Diego, that is either a true albino or “just an anomalously pigmented animal,” as researcher John Calambokidis stated last week on a marine mammal website utilized largely by scientists.
It was an adult male photographed "some 20 times" off California and Mexico dating to 1999, according to an ongoing photo-ID study spearheaded by Calambokidis, co-founder of Cascadia Research in Olympia, Wash.
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