Adventure 017 - Whale Watching

Capture California, the Game-2012

Adventure: 017 - Whale Watching

Team: Thing One, Thing Two

Date:  August 31, 2012

Location: Point Lobos State Reserve

Description:

“Thar She Blows”. Thing Two has been looking for whales since The Cat in the Hat got a pair of Binoculars for Christmas for her. Every rock in the ocean looked like a whale to Thing 2. But today some of those rocks are going to be whales. We were driving down Highway 1 and a large number of people were looking at the ocean with cameras and binoculars. We went a little farther to Point Lobos State Reserve where the ranger told us that there were several whales to be seen. After lunch we started up the North Shore Trail. And there they were with their blow holes, fins and big bodies swimming in the cove. It was an unbelievable experience. It was the first time Thing Two, and Thing One, had seen a whale other than in an aquarium. There were a pod of at least five whales swimming in the cove. There blow holes were spouting water. There fins were coming up out of the water. Not only that but you could hear them. We even heard one of the whales do a belly flop-sounds like a muffled canon shot, even from ¾ of a mile away. Driving down the coast of California is always a great time but this day was even more wonderful for Thing One and Thing Two.



So much better than the whales in the Monterrey Bay Aquarium we submitted last year! And it also seems very appropriate that we would see these wonderful creates from Whalers Cove.