(Grey) Whale watching,

So, yeah! It's a good thing i have my hair parted on the side these days, and a bit of bangs covering at least a bit of one side of my giant forehead, because the naked side was burned to a lovely crimson color while out on an Excursion today...

...Whale watching!

I've pretty much lived in California my whole life, and never taken advantage of this opportunity. The Grey Whale migrates from Alaska to Baja and back again. According to a lovely bit of literature i was handed by a marine biologist from the Scripps Institute, in its lifetime, the average Grey Whale will swim the watery version of the distance from here to the moon and back. Smashing! And today we got to see a mother and calf. Hard to spot them on the whole, but we saw actual breaching, people! Breaching! Tails hitting the water, blowholes spouting off, and everything. It really was remarkable. At one point i was lucky enough to stand at the very tip of the bow out on the open deck, and became completely mesmerized by the sparkling of the ocean water, that spread out as far as the eye could see. Definitely fell into a lull, and had to sit for a few minutes while reality sank back in. I think that this was probably where my current raspberry hue came from. It's funny how each minute that goes by sees me one shade closer to a lobster, or maybe a brick.

::shakes fist at the sun::

We even got to see samples of the barnacles and lice which spend their days stuck to the side of a massive, slow-moving cetacean. (which was funny, because during the course of our roughly 3-hour tour {sshhhhh!}, the marine biologist enlightening us over the intercom mentioned the whale lice so many times that i actually wanted to go pinch her lips shut.)

And because i am learning, always learning, i will end this post now. i'm starting to wonder if this is not a common mistake among many new bloggers? The endless f**king Forever Posts? i'm trying here, people. Bye for now...

next time: Movie madness.