[CINC] CX 09-07-09 Report

[Kenneth A. Tatro]

Fun and entertaining report, Chris.

Ya, Minkes are usually pretty shy, so very cool you saw it for a good  
bit.

Always fun to see the international crowd there.

Going out Thursday with relatives from Australia and Bolder City,  
Nevada, so gotta produce some good looks.

Thanks

Ken Tatro

On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Christopher Carlson wrote:

> Good evening sportsfans,
>
> Just the facts ma'am:
> -1 Blue Whale
> -1 Minke Whale
> -Thousands of Delphinus
>
> Today Scott Cuzzo, Alexa Mutti, and I (Chris Carlson) went aboard  
> Captain Mat's whale watching trek. A little over 100 from Ireland,  
> England, Germany, Japan, and good ol' fashioned California joined  
> us. It was a hot day but not too windy which was a nice break. We  
> spotted a lone blue whale around 11:00 quite a ways north of Santa  
> Cruz Island which was unusual but a real treat. The folks got a real  
> good look at him, which was excellent. We spotted two separate large  
> common dolphin pods, right off of western Santa Cruz and a smaller  
> one on the way home, and everyone got a real kick out of their total  
> belly flops as they sailed clear out of the water. On the way back,  
> we got an absolutely excellent look at a minke whale, which was  
> impressive as I had never seen one before for longer than five  
> seconds. On the not as great side of things, we thought we spotted a  
> harbor seal body floating in the water just outside of Painted Cave.  
> But I guess it's the circle of life, right? A gaggle of docents from  
> Morro Bay joined us and were anxious to see how the naturalists for  
> this park handled. I hope we lived up to the challenge!
>
> Fair weather, fair whales, fair dolphins, fair sea birds, fair sea  
> lions, fair people, fair company, not-so-fair traffic on the way  
> back home. I had a really great day. I hope the rest did too! :)
>
> Chris Carlson
> chrisjamescarlson at gmail.com
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