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'MB'i m m • • •Stories continued from our front pagiMONSTERWe were quite stunned thatthere was something that big inthe lake and it was in about 60 feet of water, less than 30 yards from shore, it was quite amazing, he said.Horvath, who lives in Nanaimo,sai 1 . *wasi rH» . I i1 I 1 1: I »MIt'll♦tHighway 4 on July 30,2007, when she saw a strange sent i-c t rek the lake.You could see like a serpent shape, said Horvath, who isn’t the only person to report something strange in Cameron lutke.It wasn't logs. she said. Itwasn’t waves. There were noboats in the area, it was, like, rightthere. You could actually see a large fish, (an) object, no, not an object, something alive.Kirk, who admits his trip to Cameron Like is being sponsored by the local Oceanside Tourism Association, said the team accidentally lost its u n d e rw a t e r catn era and wa s unable to explore further.Because the weather will deteriorate in the fall and winter, another search will have to wait until next year, Kirk said.■- ■ ■ 'M1- jf' ’yW: 'v .-.'VsBut die team has narrowed thepossibilities.Maybe it’s a sturgeon, maybe it's a giant sterile eel... it could be a massive type of salamander Kirk said. Or it could besomething that we re completelyunaware of at this point.’1 lowever, it’s unlikely the smalllake is the home of a mysterious'•rsea monster, Kirk said.I’m not going to the extent to ere’s anything exotic down there, there’s just something big.Kirk has searched for the Ogopogo in Okanagan Lake inthe B.C. interior, looked in coastal B.C. for the Sasquatch, tried to find the sea creature Cad borosau rus off Vancouver Island and has hunted for giant salamanders in swamps.He’s been to Scotland and the republics of Congo and Cameroon in search of strange dinosaur like beasts.But it’s British Columbia waters that provide a fertile hunting ground for animal tales, he said.Kirk said there are 41 different lakes in British Columbia where strange animal sightings havebeen reported.In B.C., we just seem to have a'»1'IK I Ii. fton of these lakes where these things have been seen,” he s; Sawmill workers at LakeCow iton Vancouver I si areported seeing a large lake creature during the 1960s and a local fisherman said he hooked something that pulled him and his boat around the lake for an hour, Kirk said.He said the Cadborosaurus,which has been adopted as an unofficial tourism mascot in theVictoria area, is real becausefishermen found one inside the belly of a sperm whale in 1937 and sent it to the Royal B.C. Museum for identification....................what you tin scientific terms is the tvpe-specimen there,' said Kirk. Most people describe this thing as an elongated serpent-like creature. It has a camel-like head. That description comes up over and * 1i *. f K tf'il !■I It ISover.A former clerk of the B.C legislature, Henry WilliamLangley' and provincial arcFred Kemp, issued a joint statement in 1922 saying they’d seen a sea creature off Chatham Island near Victoria.se are not nut-casepeople. These are very serious people, said Kirk.In 1951, Langley was crushed to death under the wheels of amaimotas u waspulling out of the Victoria station.Kirk said Cadborosaurus’ range is not confined to the Victoria area. Reports of a similar animal have come from the Gulf of Alaska to the Sea of Cortez in Mexico.In Oregon, the animal goes by the name Colossal Claude.* nevesColumbia is in a class by itself forwhat he calls crytozoological encounters.People have actually started to embrace the strange animals to the point where they are showing up in tourism brochures, he said.Like Moberly Like up in the (northeast) area, the first Nations re got in touch with me and told me about the creature that they had been seeing with a horse’s head swimming around in the lake, and now they’ve given it a name, Kirk said.They call it Moberlv Dick.”
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