Today wasn’t even supposed to be that eventful, than just after breakfast, we went out on the lanai to watch for turtles and then, faintly out in the distance, something caught our eye. Just barely sticking out of the water north of Black Rock and a good ways out from the beach, we saw what we thought was our first whale.
I ran inside and grabbed my binoculars, and sure enough, it was a whale. It totally caught us by surprise because we thought we’d only see a handful on our whale cruise Wednesday and that would be far out of the harbor. It wasn’t a giant breach or a 12 foot spout of water like you see in photographs, but it was still a thrill.
We went took another look after we went shopping at Safeway, and we saw a little spout activity. In fact, we think we saw one adult whale and one calf swimming together, which was awesome. The sad part was that while we could see them perfectly with our binoculars, they were too far out to get any good shots with my telephoto lens. Hopefully that will change on Wednesday’s cruise.
Best Monday ever. 
Tags: whales
