Sam Colbert
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first heard Jul 2026
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But the team also saw less encouraging behaviors.
The whales showed signs of stress.
Little Grey developed stomach ulcers and stopped eating.
So the girls returned to the indoor pool for the winter to recover.
Then the pandemic set things back another year.
But by the summer of 2022, the team had made some improvements and were ready to try again.
But then...
Another summer, gone.
But then finally, in 2023, the girls returned to the bay.
The first spell in the bay lasted four months, and the second just four weeks.
Each time, the whales seemed happier back in their indoor safe space.
By one metric, this has not been a success.
The whales are, after all, still in a concrete pen.
But while critics wanted to declare this project dead, that conclusion feels premature.
Exploring whether this can work while keeping these animals healthy is going to require patience.
Is it ever difficult to hold on to the conviction that the bay is the best place for them?
You kind of see them doing well in here and happy in here, and then they go to the bay and they look a little upset.
In the seven years they've been here, the team has learned a lot.
They've been making improvements to the bay infrastructure to make it more comfortable for the whales and safe for the humans who look after them.
And this month, they will try bringing the whales out again.
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