1.) Every year between December and April thousands of humpback whales make the 6000 mile journey from Alaskan waters to Hawaiian waters to breed and calve. Experts don't know why, but this year there's been a bumper crop of whales. A whale-watchers playground! Photo 1 shows a Momma humpback and her new baby. All in all I got about 65 various whale photographs. (And that's not counting what Ed snapped on his camera.)
2.) Photo 2 shows from a distance, the boat we went out on, the Trilogy IV.
3.) Photo 3 shows the back of the boat and a few of our fellow sailors. These fellow sailors, in way (and like it or not), know me intimately, for they were all blessed with the sight of me stretched out on deck puking my guts up over the side of the boat. Yes, and egad, I got SEASICK. Very, very, very. I was caught completely off guard by this, as it's never happened before. (We've owned so many boats! Spent weeks at time on them, went on a cruise, etc!!!) I think it was because I was looking through my camera lens the whole time that the boisterous wave action confused my inner ear/brain. I'd say I was embarrassed but honestly, I was too sick to care.
Today, however, I'm a little bummed out. Since I felt fine and great the whole first hour of the trip, Ed and I were very excited about whale watching (just loving it!) and planned to take several more trips out before we have to return home. Now, the idea of that sounds like nothing short of a trip to hell. Ah, well...
Today, it's terra firma for me!
Aloha! L
Don't feel bad about getting seasick. We went on a shark cage adventure off the north shore of Oahu last July and 3 out of 6 passengers got sick. (Luckily I wasn't one of them.)
Your pictures make me want to go back. Next time another island, though Oahu was beautiful. Just want to see the other islands too.
Posted by: Vicky | 02/07/2010 at 05:09 PM