[CINC] Santa Cruz Trip Today

[Scott Cuzzo]

I was off duty today and went to Santa Cruz Island to hike today.  We  
saw about 1000 common dolphin on the way out there, and two blue  
whales on the way back, not too far from platform Grace.  One of the  
whales even did a partial breach!  Also at one point we were  
following, I think just one whale, and it was going fairly fast and  
sort of plowing through the surface and it would come up to spout.   
Sort of different and cool.

And if anyone is interested, I have pics of an unusual "lantern  
stinkhorn" fungus that was growing in my garden.  A four inch stalk  
sticking straight up with four bright orange "chicken toes" clustered  
at the top.  Weird and cool.  Sort of like me.  At least the weird  
part for sure.

Scott Cuzzo