Whale Observation

     On Monday we went to McGregor's point to observe whales. The purpose of this was to use our clinometers to see how far the whales were from our point of view, and by using the formula Distance = Elevation x tan (angle of inclination).
     My questions is "will there be more whales earlier or later in the season"? My hypothesis is that there will be more whales earlier in the season because that's when all the whales are migrating and later they all will migrate back so we might not see as much.
     My experience and McGregor's point was interesting, my favorite part was looking for the whales and measuring them with the clinometer. One challenge was the when we looked in the clinometer it was some times hard to tell what angle the string was hitting because of the wind. We saw a bunch of whales that were spouting