SAS - Whale watching (was Digest number 270)

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vegan-network, " Sue Grayson " <suegrayson@n...> wrote:

> >Did you go whale watching?

>

> What??

> When??

> Where??

> Huh??

>

> Sas

> xxx

 

Sas

 

In reply to your questions

What? Humpback and Fin Whales

When? Last month

Where? Boston & Cape Cod Massachusetts

Huh? What can I say Whales are a passion of mine and have been since

I was abour 9 or 10, I spent a long time ill in hospital and someone

bought me a book on Whales, which I read over and over again,

couldn't believe how huge and graceful they were or how long they had

been on this planet.

 

Cape Cod is fantastic, full of the gay community who always manage to

make everywhere bright and funky. It also catered excellently for

vegans with one or two health food shops and even the supermarkets

had much more than ours.

 

We went out on a boat everyday and just for the record I think

they're watching us more than we're watching them. Very nosey

creatures the humpback and we were lucky enough to see a baby

humpback breaching (diving) out of the water and playing, enough to

make you cry.

 

The best thing about it is these boats instead of killing them now

are actually contributing financially to keeping them safe. All the

boats have a naturalist on board trying to educate people and collect

data for studies. If your interested the two web site addresses

below will give you more information.

 

http://www.whalewatch.com

http://www.coastalstudies.org/

 

I have been twice before, although I did originally wait 18 years to

see my first as I wanted to be sure we weren't invading their space.

 

Last year I went to Monterey bay, California for my birthday to see

grey whales, incidentally I think we share the same birthday (jan

19th). Hope that answers your questions.

 

Bev