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While traveling down the West Coast on HWY 101 just past the Oregon and California border we came across a flood of people on a bridge. Of course we had to stop. But to our surprise, the object of everyone's attention wasn't a school of salmon or even a bear, it was a grey whale trapped in the Klamath River. After getting the skinny from some fellow on lookers, we learned that the whale wasn't alone to begin with. Almost a month ago, this grey whale navigated its way up the Klamath river with it's baby calf. Only a few days prior, the calf abandoned its mother and made the journey back out to the Pacific Ocean leaving the mother all alone circling the 101 bridge. Although she may feel lonesome she is not. There were around a hundred spectators cheering for her to make it back out to the cool waters of the Pacific Ocean. http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-646099?hpt=hp_bn1

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A female gray whale remains stuck in a Northern California river despite scientists' efforts to nudge the 40-ton mammal seaward with unpleasant underwater sounds.

Sarah Wilkin of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association says a rescue team Tuesday played killer whale and alarm sounds through speakers mounted on a boat on the Klamath River.

The team had hoped the sounds would help send the whale back in the direction of the Pacific Ocean a few miles downstream, but to no avail. The mother and her calf wandered into the river in late June.

Wilkin says the calf apparently weaned itself from the mother and returned to the ocean late Saturday.

Scientists are concerned the mother will not find enough food and that her skin will suffer in the freshwater environment.

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