<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ya, Carolyn, it never gets old. an amazing day for ya and the folks on board.<div><br></div><div>Ken Tatro</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 15, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Carolyn McCleskey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv1376926734">Yes, we saw a few dolphins, a mom calf Blue pair and other Blues in the area,<br>including a fluking one, but the best was the pair of Humpbacks that did all<br>the tricks in their repertoire, breaching within 25 yds of the boat, tail lobbing<br>together as if they were sparring, trumpeting, covering us with whale snot,<br>then swimming close together around and under the boat, scratching their<br>bodies on the hull, spyhopping, rolling within 2 feet of the boat, and just having<br>so much fun that the passengers had to keep running around the boat to keep <br>up, for a solid 50 minutes. Truly one of the top five memorable sightings, I<br>have had in 13 years, or Matt in his 15 years. Marilyn D. on photo I.D., but they<br>were too close to film except for fun frames. Paul Froemming and I had to field<br>lots of questions from the excited passengers, and Capt. Dave took his turn at the helm while D.J. did his best taking care of the crowd. <br>The kids on board especially were thrilled by the idea that probably no one <br>they knew had ever been that close to a whale ! <br>I am so grateful to be a part of CINC and share this with the public. Carolyn<br><br><br><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table>_______________________________________________<br>Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Channel_islands_naturalist_corps@rain.org">Channel_islands_naturalist_corps@rain.org</a><br>http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>