The Cadborosaurus (affectionately “Caddy”) is a cryptid of Canada — a sea-serpent said to inhabit the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest of North America, especially around Vancouver Island and the coast of British Columbia, often described as a long, serpentine sea-creature with a horse-like or camel-like head, humps, and flippers. The sea serpent of the Pacific Northwest, the serpentine sea-creature of the British Columbia coast, the Cadborosaurus is one of the famous sea-serpent cryptids, the serpent of the cold Pacific waters.
The Sea Serpent of the Pacific Northwest
The Cadborosaurus (named for Cadboro Bay near Victoria, British Columbia, where it has often been reported, with the “-saurus” suffix for a reptile-like creature) is described as a long, serpentine sea-creature — a great sea-serpent, with a long, serpentine body (reports giving lengths of many feet, even tens of feet), a series of humps or coils breaking the surface, a long neck, a horse-like or camel-like head (a head likened to that of a horse, camel, or giraffe), and flippers — the serpentine sea-serpent with the horse-like head. It is said to inhabit the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest — especially the waters around Vancouver Island and the coast of British Columbia, Canada (and the surrounding Pacific Northwest coast, including Washington State), the cold coastal Pacific waters — the sea-serpent of the British Columbia coast. As the sea serpent of the Pacific Northwest, the long serpentine sea-creature with the horse-like head and the humps, the Cadborosaurus is the serpentine sea-serpent of the cold Pacific waters.
The Reports and the Carcass
The Cadborosaurus has been the subject of numerous reports and sightings in the waters of the Pacific Northwest, where it is a famous regional cryptid, reported by many witnesses over a long period — the long serpentine sea-creature seen in the coastal waters, the humps and the horse-like head breaking the surface, the encounters and glimpses. The sightings have roots in the traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest coast, who told of sea-serpents and sea-monsters of the coastal waters. The most famous (and debated) piece of Cadborosaurus evidence is the Naden Harbour carcass — a strange carcass, photographed in 1937, said to have been recovered from the stomach of a whale at the Naden Harbour whaling station in British Columbia, which appeared to show a long, serpentine creature with a strange head, and which has been claimed as a possible Cadborosaurus carcass (though the carcass itself was lost, and the photographs are debated, the creature being variously interpreted as a Cadborosaurus, a decomposed known animal, a fetal whale, or a misidentified creature). The reports and the carcass have been the subject of cryptozoological interest and debate, the believers holding them as evidence of a real sea-serpent and the skeptics regarding them as misidentifications (of known sea-creatures — sea lions in a line, otters, sharks, oarfish, decomposing whales and basking sharks, and other animals), hoaxes, and legend. As the subject of the reports and the famous carcass, the Cadborosaurus is the famous sea-serpent of the Pacific Northwest.
The Sea-Serpent Cryptid
The Cadborosaurus is one of the famous sea-serpent cryptids — the great serpentine sea-creatures and sea-monsters reported in the world’s oceans and coasts, of which the Cadborosaurus is one of the most famous, belonging to the long and rich tradition of sea-serpent reports and sea-monster lore (the sea-serpents reported by sailors and coastal peoples throughout history, the sea-monsters of legend and report). It is the sea-serpent of the Pacific Northwest, the Canadian member of the sea-serpent family, the serpentine sea-creature of the British Columbia coast. It has been variously interpreted — as a real, undiscovered sea-creature (a surviving plesiosaur or marine reptile, a large unknown serpentine creature, or an unknown sea-animal), as misidentifications of known sea-creatures, or as legend. Like the other sea-serpent cryptids, the Cadborosaurus is regarded by mainstream science as a creature of misidentification, folklore, and legend rather than a real undiscovered animal; but it endures as a famous regional sea-serpent cryptid. As the sea-serpent cryptid, the serpentine sea-creature of the Pacific Northwest and a famous member of the sea-serpent family, the Cadborosaurus is the serpent of the cold Pacific waters. As the sea serpent of the Pacific Northwest — the Cadborosaurus, Caddy, the long serpentine sea-creature with the horse-like head of the British Columbia coast — it stands as one of the famous sea-serpent cryptids.
Legacy
The Cadborosaurus endures as one of the famous sea-serpent cryptids, the long, serpentine sea-creature with the horse-like head said to inhabit the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest, especially around Vancouver Island and British Columbia, rooted in indigenous sea-monster traditions and the subject of numerous reports and the famous Naden Harbour carcass, a beloved regional cryptid, the sea-serpent of the cold Pacific waters. As the sea serpent of the Pacific Northwest — the Cadborosaurus, “Caddy,” the long serpentine sea-creature of the British Columbia coast — the Cadborosaurus stands as one of the famous sea-serpent cryptids of the world, the serpent of the cold Pacific waters, the serpentine sea-monster of the Pacific Northwest coast.
