omg - we saw whales today
Apr. 8th, 2008 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There are two canoe clubs that paddle out of Haleiwa Bay. There are also two buoys, the inner buoys (one red and one green) and the tall red ringer buoy (it's the one with, I think, a bell of some kind maybe?) out at the very limit of the bay where the water *really* changes.
Sometimes we do laps of a kind, out to the buoy and back in, out to the buoy and back in. Etc.
So first I was in the novice boat and we were just going to the inner buoys and back; then coach had me trade out with someone in one of the regular boats, and we headed out to the outer buoy. Out there, I noticed, the four canoes from the other canoe club were just sitting in the water not moving Weird, yeah?
Just away from the buoy a mother and calf were lolling--humpback whales.
We, too, stopped paddling and just sat as the waves rolled under us and watched, from about 50 yards away, the flippers and back and tails emerge and submerge.
It was just amazing.
But the sun was setting, so we had to go back in.
Sometimes we do laps of a kind, out to the buoy and back in, out to the buoy and back in. Etc.
So first I was in the novice boat and we were just going to the inner buoys and back; then coach had me trade out with someone in one of the regular boats, and we headed out to the outer buoy. Out there, I noticed, the four canoes from the other canoe club were just sitting in the water not moving Weird, yeah?
Just away from the buoy a mother and calf were lolling--humpback whales.
We, too, stopped paddling and just sat as the waves rolled under us and watched, from about 50 yards away, the flippers and back and tails emerge and submerge.
It was just amazing.
But the sun was setting, so we had to go back in.