Such woes! Unacceptable! Once in a while, enough is enough. Captain Danny dragged our otherwise dandy vessel Pacifica far offshore, to find an exhorbitant amount of humpback whales, some 12 in all. Far too many to keep track of, we settled on a group five. At one point, they came so close to the boat, we couldn’t even take their picture; they did not fit in the frame! Just as we thought things couldn’t get worse, a handful of Pacific White Sided Dolphin appeared. Our heads nearly fell from our shoulders, as our necks craned this way and that around this true embarrassment of riches. Humpbacks here, dolphin there: where to point the cameras? Suddenly, one of the humpbacks started tail throwing and pec-slapping. No no no, they are supposed to pay extra for that nonsense! Fed up, we fled offshore only to stumble into a pod of Northern Right Whale Dolphin, who leapt from the water and toted several tiny calves. Unable to tolerate the oversaturation of wildlife sightings, we tucked our tails between our legs, and screamed home. Did I mention that the weather turned out beautiful? Well, sadly, it did! Where was the adventure, the adversity? Days like today make a man soft!
-Naturalist Isaiah
