Sunday, May 18, 2008

Whale watching from our "back yard"

May gray and on shore winds (blows on shore from the ocean) have given way to a heat wave with off shore winds. Bottom line is the sun is out again! Time to head to the beach....so after a few hours of sleep on Sat Dale woke me up early and off we went!! We have a great time watching everyone on the beach, today (Sun) we watched a couple of young boys play for hours in the waves with a ball, talk about a workout! Ignore this picture - Dale had a great time watching dolphins while I was at work a couple of times. (It really is a nice picture)
Now back to Sat - We were just settling in to read a bit on the beach when I saw a large splash out of the corner of my eye. It didn't take long to see we were watching a whale play (some of the pictures look like we may have seen 2 whales playng) . When Aaron and James were here we paid money to watch whales feed for a couple of hours and we thought that was wonderful. This (or these) whale(s) were having a grand time playing, they "breeched" or came out of the water several times. We think they looked like the humpbacks we saw on our whale watching trip. WOW! One of the nurses at work said they like to scratch the barnacles off their skin in the kelp beds.
Sunset - Peace - Good Night

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