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West Sacramento's wayward whales have started making their move and
are now headed out of town, and it didn't even take intentional
coaxing to get them going.

A couple of tugboats were reportedly working nearby and the sound
prompted Delta and Dawn to leave the turning basin at the Port of
Sacramento.

Thousands of spectators rushed to the dusty banks of the Port of
Sacramento on Saturday and Sunday to catch a glimpse of two whales
that took a wrong turn and swam 90 miles inland to California's
capital.

The wayward pair -- dubbed Delta and Dawn by the state's lieutenant
governor -- did not disappoint.

Crowds shrieked every time the mother and calf surfaced for air.
People grew tense when the whales weren't spotted for more than a few
minutes.

"I see it, I see it, I see it," screamed 4-year-old Eliyas Charles,
wide-eyed and pointing at the water from atop his grandfather's
shoulders. "That black spot was the whale. I can see it."

The riverbank took on the air of a carnival with its traffic cops,
makeshift parking lots, Port-o-Potties and vendors selling ice-cold
drinks.

The whales seemed content to command the crowd's attention. For the
fifth day since they were first spotted in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta, they mostly swam looping half-mile laps around the Port of
Sacramento, where the sprawling inland waterway essentially comes to
an end.

Scientists have been hoping the whales -- which both appear to have
been wounded by a ship's propeller -- would begin swimming westward
toward the Pacific Ocean on their own.

But Carrie Wilson, a biologist with the California Department of Fish
and Game, said experts are content with the animals remaining in the
isolated port area for the weekend since heavy boat traffic in the
delta could complicate rescue efforts.

The whales swam in peace with the help of a Coast Guard escort on
Saturday. The Coast Guard enforced a 500-yard safety zone around the
whales and authorities closed the north port channel and a nearby
public boat ramp for the weekend.

"Our plan is to wait out the weekend," Wilson said. "Of course, if
they start moving, we're ready to mobilize."

A marine mammal rescue crew plans to resume efforts Monday to lure the
pair by playing recorded sounds of other humpbacks feeding. A similar
strategy worked in 1985 with a humpback nicknamed Humphrey, which swam
in the delta for nearly a month before returning to the Pacific.

But the situation near Sacramento is more complicated, experts say. It
involves a mother and calf, rather than a single whale, and the
mother's concern for her baby may explain why she hasn't responded to
the scientists' efforts to appeal to her stomach.

If scientists have not made progress by Tuesday, they plan to begin
herding the animals down river with a gauntlet of 50 boats that would
provide a less-pleasing underwater soundtrack of banging on pipes.

Whether the animals begin moving on their own, the trek promises to be
complicated, Wilson said. The whales will have to negotiate four
potential roadblocks -- the pylons of four bridges -- to reach the San
Francisco Bay. Then they will have to swim under the Golden Gate
Bridge to return to the ocean.

Some aren't looking forward to saying goodbye.

An estimated 10,000 people have visited the port's banks over the last
three days, according to West Sacramento Police.

"It's just so neat, it's right in our backyard," said Karen Wilhelm,
41, of Sacramento, who is studying wildlife b