Saturday, December 21, 2013

Pacific Marine Life

One of the perks of staying directly on the ocean is that you have a good chance of seeing marine life throughout the day.

Over breakfast one morning, we watched a humpback whale and her calf swim on by the house.  On several occasions, we watched pods of dolphins swim by.  Of course, it always happened when our camera wasn't handy so we would simply run to where our swimming pool met the beach and watch for their dark backs to crest the water.


One afternoon we drove to another location down the beach for some wonderful seafood and an opportunity to go out on a little boat and see the wildlife up close.

We watched the birds light upon a nearby rock (which stinks up close, due to their copious droppings).

We watched numerous pairs of sea turtles, which were floating in the water, given that its mating season.   

We left well enough alone with the mating turtles, but spotted a loner out there, and jumped in for a quick swim with a real live sea turtle!

Then we rode around the water on the lookout for dolphins.  Just as we were going to give up, we were found by a very large pod of dolphins who graced us we a display of jumps out of the water.

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