yesterday, whalewatching was wonderful. we saw eight humpback whales. one was a calf, breachign or beaching or however the hell you say that. all kinds of parts of me are going numb at the minute from my overexhaustion, which isn't good.
but junior, as the naturalist kept calling him, was flying out of the water (only about half of him, that's still a pretty big splash though, and he'd swim on his back waving both flippers in the air, huge flippers they are. then he'd swim on his side and wave a flipper, then slap it in the air. he was just playing and playing and playing. we watched him for about an hour, the other seven humpbacks were adults caught up in the feed. and our captain stayed by four diving humpbacks, junior among them, and just waited to see where they'd come up.
and they came up right beside the boat. giant bubble clouds could be seen under the water, then they rose, huge mouths gaping. one even stuck it's eyes out of the water, a half breech i think it's called. to see us.
very, very cool.
as soon as it was over, i was just enjoying the boatride and my girl said,
i'm bored.
i wanted to spit. these kids. i swear.
at that point, i couldn't even stay awake for the life of me, so i got a bad case of the nods and would wake up only when i slammed my head back up and into the captain's cabin.
my daughter thought it was quite hilarious, but i'd wake up pretty fitful because it's hard to be in public, so exhausted you can't keep your eyes open, and you just hope your kid will be right where you left her. unnerving. the benefit of having more than one pair of eyes.
but i'm tired, must rest.
will likely wake up sometime tomorrow to feed then sleep again. this will hopefully continue for the next two days. i can't remember when i needed to sleep so bad.
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