It doesn't feel like there is going to be a major event here in four days. And you're right. There isn't the excitement or anticipation of being at an Olympic Centre, like there will be four days before Vancouver 2010.

From the day I arrived to today, there is still no real sense of being at the Olympics.

We're having to keep Gena at shorter distances right now, so we're not really sure what's going to shake out coming into the season. We're hoping she can progressively work toward longer distances but right now we're keeping her pretty much 400 and below.

Everybody was afraid of her. I wish . . . I'd called right then.

People need to know that right whales are in the area for the next couple of weeks. They need to put that on their checklists of things they have to think about when operating vessels in that area.

Right whales don't typically go into real warm water. Being in the Gulf of Mexico in March and April, we knew they had to go south [to warmer water] before they could go north. But lo and behold, those animals made it out of there and later were seen where they were supposed to be.