Whales!

Whales!

Lunch was good, soup, sandwiches and clementines (“cuties”). I started the dishes, but Mikey took over to let me see some whale blow way out in the distance. I watched that for a bit not too successfully, went back to the dishes, Ahn took over because she actually likes cleaning (very convenient for the rest of us I suppose?), I tried again, and then some of us headed out to the point. Here it was a lot easier to see them, though they were still pretty far off in the distance. We saw a lot of blows (har har), and at least one tail. Denny said they were definitely humpbacks, probably young ones. Apparently they stick around here because of a group of herring that lives right there. I came back in feeling a bit guilty about the dishes, but Ahn and Mike have still got it I guess. Vince said there was a breach, but they only saw the back half, after I left. A bit disappointing, but still, it was awesome to see anything at all. The tails really are very distinctive. Based on the number of blows we saw and whatnot, we're estimating 3-4 whales. Hopefully we'll see more in Hawaii.

Tuesday, January 12th, roughly 1:30 PM local time