The wind that day was blowing pretty hard and the waves were very choppy. The boat crew recommended taking Dramamine just in case. While the boat was pulling in with the people from the previous trip, I watched them mopping vomit off the side of the ship. I took the pill.
After a very bouncy ride, the naturalist said she could see whale water spouts (where they push the water out of the blow spouts) ahead and off we went. I was impressed! The naturalist said that it was feeding season and estimated that we saw about twenty humpback and minke (?) whales out there. There were whales leaping, spouting, and waving with their fins. Some were as close as twenty feet of the ship. Taking photos was a considerable challenge because you usually couldn't figure out where to look for them and they'd already be going back under by the time you managed to focus on them but I got some wonderful photos. It's hard to imagine creatures that big swimming through the water and jumping like that. Very beautiful! And they used to hunt these things for oil. Shudder!
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