FROSTY THE Snowman and a snowy friend frolic (when nobody’s watching) in this fairy-lit yard on East
Braemar in North Vancouver. Music from inside the home is broadcast continuously as part of this winter

scene.

Georgia
Strait sea
monster
sighted

DOES THE Loch Ness monster
have a cousin in the Strait of
Georgia?

From the Oregon coast to the
coast of Alaska, including B.C.’s
Georgia Strait, at least 20 people
have reported sighting a sea
monster with a giraffe, camel or
horse-like head; a long neck; a
mane; and humps on its back.

In Victoria in the 1930s, the ap-
parition was named ‘‘Caddy”’
because it was sighted in Cadboro
‘Bay. The most recent sightings
were recorded in English Bay in
Vancouver and in the Sechelt area
of the Sunshine Coast.

People who claim they have seen
‘ta. large, unidentified marine
animal’’ are absolutely convinced
it is real, according to Dr. Paul
DeBlond, head of oceanography at
UBC and the author of a recent
federal report on West Coast
lighthouses. LeBlond is a director
of the International Society of
Cryptozoologists, established to
investigate reports of uniden-
tifiable species.

The earliest in a_ series of
sightings reported to LeBlond took
place in 1906. He said he does not
necessarily believe the reports, but
he does not disbelieve them either.

“In the sense that I do observa-
tions on the oceans, I wouldn’t
have to go on the basis of belief or

disbelief that I’m going to find

something, and yet, the word
belief smacks too much of accep-
tance without sufficient proof.’’

Colin Cole is a believer. On a
summer day in 1985, Cole was sit-
ting on his waterfront verandah at
Roberts Creek near Sechelt, eating
a late afternoon meal.

‘‘About.a half mile out from
shore, I saw a six-foot-long neck,”’
he said. ‘‘The thing’s head looked
something like a dinosaur’s and it
had about a 12 to 14-foot-long
body.”

Cole said he has fived in his
waterfront home for years and can

identify sea life, but he had never.

seen anything like that.

“As far as I’m concerned,
there’s no doubt there’s something
out there,’ he said. ‘‘! still look
for it.”

LeBlond has never seen a sea
monster, although he has travelled
to Scotland and to B.C.’s
Okanagan, hoping to catch a
glimpse of the Loch Ness monster
and the Ogopogo.

He compares looking for sea
monsters to piecing together a
puzzle,

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