Cadborosaurus

Move over Lock Ness Monster!!! The Cadborosaurus is a real sea serpent with far more legitimate documentation to prove it's existence. Native legends are full of tales relating to the creatures behavior and existence in it's natural coastal habitat. What’s in a name? Cadborosaurus, Penda, Caddy, Old Hiaschuckoluk, Hiyitl’iik, T’chain-ko, Sisuitl, Say-Noth-Kai, Na-Ha-Tik and Chunacklas. Each of these unique names and many more have related directly to our very own Cadborosaurus Willsi as people have tried to personalize and explain their encounters with the ancient creature. Many of these native names attempt to explain what the creature looks like or what it is, whereas the english names seem to relate more to where the sightings took place, and by whom. This example has also been followed while naming the cousins of ‘caddy’ such as Ogopogo, Loch Ness, Champ, Nessie, and the many others.

Description

No matter what you want to call this creature, most of the sightings have described similar physical descriptions. It has been estimated at anywhere from 6ft to over 100ft in length with the girth being reported at 1ft to an amazing 4ft in width. The colouring of the main serpent like body has been reported mostly as dark green to brown or grey; while the eye colours seem to vary they are always reported as being large and forward on the head (typical of a carnivore). The head is usually described as horse or camel like, with many variations in regards to ears, horns, mane, and nose. Some people report it has 4 legs strong enough to walk on while most claim that these are fins used only to guide the animal through the water. The tip of the tail is most often described as a double flipper, used specifically for propulsion.

Many sceptics have tried to suggest that what others are seeing are seals, snakes, ballen whales, fringe sharks, or left over dinosaurs called plesiosaurs. Although there have been many sightings where visibility has been low and descriptions sketchy and weak, there have also been clear obvious sightings by experienced mariners who would easily recognize any of the other aquatic lifeforms. The greatest distinguishing characteristic usually involved in caddy sightings is the way the creature moves. It has been described as utilizing an undulating or rolling motion rather than the side-to-side motion we can typically associate with water snakes and even most fish.

Sightings

For the first official reported sighting, we have to go back to the year 1734, where a Norwegian missionary named Hans Egede took a voyage to Greenland. Here's his undenied report, " on the 6th of July 1734 there appeared a very terrible sea-animal which raised itself above the water. It's head seemed to reach the maintop. It had a long sharp snout, it blew like a whale, had broad large flappers and the body was, as it were, covered with a hard skin, very wrinkled. Moreover, the lower part was snakelike. When it submerged it raised its tail above the water, a whole ship length from its body."

In the early 30's there began serious reports of a sea serpent that inhabited the West Coast of North America. The creature came to be called the CADBOROSAURUS after the CADBORO BAY, a small bay where sightings have been the most frequent.

Sightings have began to be officially recorded and legitimized as early as 1932 where F.W. Kemp (An officer of the Provincial Archives of BC) and his family first reported seeing the creature.

His courage prompted Major W.H. Langley and his wife to come forward with information about their own sighting in 1933. (Langley was a clerk to the BC Legislature.)

1936 in Aberdeen Washington was the very first report of an actual carcass being discovered washed up on the shore. This carcass was then conveniently lost before it could be studied.

In 1937, 38 astounding photographs were taken with a few different cameras of a carcass rescued from the belly of a large sperm whale. The men who took the photos; Capt. Hagelund and fellow mariners were experienced fishermen and were at a loss as to the identity of the intact remains. Carcass photos and samples were then sent to the provincial museum for identification and possible classification. The museum quickly identified the samples as a Ballen Whale Fetis, then most conveniently lost all the samples before a second set of tests could be run. Was it really incompetence that lost these samples or were they redirected?

A large crowd also sighted a cadborosaurus in the Juan DeFuca Straight in 1953.

In 1968 Captain W. Haglund caught a live16" 'Caddy' and began transporting it to coastal officials. During the journey the creature began showing signs that it might perish before safely arriving at it's destination, and he set it free.We've interviewed Hagelund often.

Another more recent significant sighting came in Japanese waters back in 1977. A fishing trawler netted a huge heavy catch and when the fishermen brought it aboard, they saw the badly decomposed body of a strange unidentified gigantic sea creature. This was no figment of their imaginations, as this decomposing sea creature's body weighed in at 4000 pounds and it measured 32 feet long. Upon careful observation, it was definitely not a fish, nor a whale nor any other recognizable creature. The captain of the ZUIYO MARU took flesh samples and pictures to marine scientists. After they scoured over the information and photos of the remains, the scientists were truly baffled. This creature was totally unknown and could not be classified. It was concluded the creature was perhaps closest to the large land dinosaur the PLESIOSAUR, evolutionists claim became extinct some 70 million years ago!

Reduced Populations

Although the Cadborosaurus is apparently a species that lives in the oceans there are also many sightings of creatures resembling Caddy from inland lakes and rivers around the world. Some experts believe that these creatures may have been landlocked by global environmental shifts like the iceage, where others feel that there may actually be underground rivers and passages that link many of these sighting locations together.

Why has there been such a dramatic decrease in the amount of Caddy sightings in the last few decades? Perhaps the increase in human traffic on the many waterways has influenced the habits of the creature. Increased traffic also brings with it an increase in pollution that saturates these once clean waters and shorelines.

A decrease in the amount of wildlife such as fish, birds and other food sources for this carnivore would also influence how often such a creature might risk hunting in areas that contain an obvious human presence. The abundant days of the salmon runs so thick that you could almost walk across the water on the backs of the many fish are long gone.

Investigation

There have been so many hoaxes in relation to the Ogo Pogo, Nessie, Lock Ness and even our own caddy. Could the Cadborosaurus be just another attraction to bring tourist dollars to a thriving BC tourism economy? 

Locations for our sucessful investigation into this elusive creature affectionately to many as 'Caddy' include Tofino, Long beach, Naniamo, Cadboro Bay, Sidney, Victoria, Oak Bay, Naniamo River, Iona Beach, Telegraph Bay, Ucluelet, NewWestminister, 10 Mile point, Vancouver, Chilliwack lake, Fraser Rvr, and many other communities up and down the west coast.

We are eager to hear of any recent sightings or evidence that anyone wishes to bring forward. 

What secrets do our deep dark sea depths and almost bottomless lakes obscure from peering eyes. Maybe we will never know, but it makes sense to explore and know all we can of our unique planet, and the oceans are relatively uncharted so far. In the meantime, expect to see our OUTTHERE TV paranormal investigation team in hot pursuit.

This space is devoted to Capt. Cryil Andrews

This man had an uncanny ability to read the sea. He nearly invented courtesy and etiquette for marine life, bringing compassion out of barbarianism. 

This man had a close relationship with "Caddy", as he called it. He had quite a few significant and certified reports of his personal interactions with Caddy to share with us.

He was a gentleman for a sly 'ol salty dog.