Chavodel8en
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This video has the southern point of the red triangle starting at Big Sur (so it would include Carmel/Monterey). I always thought it started much further north at Ano Nuevo, with the big seal hatchery there - (edit, whoops - seal rookery, I guess seals don't lay eggs, but how cool would that be). Oh well, I suppose there's no official boundary of the "red triangle." In any case, GWS sightings in Carmel/Monterey are exceedingly rare -- maybe the edges are more of a pastel pink triangle?.
The video also contradicts the theorem about surfer/seal silhouette made above, stating that GWS have great eyesight and attack not based on mistaken identity, but out of curiosity/exploration. Its really a gray area between the two, and I guess unless we could get a GWS on the psychologists' couch we wont ever really know which is more correct.
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