Seeing moby dick

Sunshine and blue skies these days!! The other day we had a long road trip. Traveled about 3 hours by road and ferry up to the whale safari at Andenes. A whole busload of Spanish tourists were late and instead of setting off at 4, we left the dock at 4.30pm. The boat took us to open sea where the whales were. We were 1 hour away from the shore at the feeding grounds of the whales, it was so far out at sea, there was almost no land in sight. Coupled with the windy day, the rough sea wasn’t making sitting in it easy. Lucky for us, we all took the sea sickness pill 1 hour before the trip. Knowing me that I’d feel dizzy even from water training, I sat at the bottom deck in between sightings, which was more stable. But the bottom deck was also the ‘sick bay’ and there were people beside and in front of me puking into their puke-bags. The Spanish who had arrived late probably didn’t take the pill and probably formed the majority pukees. Pity them, go out to sea, gotta suffer and not in the right mood to see the whales somemore...There were those who looked really sick and green, and those who sounded like they were going to throw up all their innards, watching and listening to them was just disturbing man. Kinda reminded me of Matilda the movie, the scene where the boy in the school starts throwing up and then the whole hall of people starts throwing up after him...I was sitting there trying to focus hard on not getting sick which is a dumb thing to do, coz as jacq said, trying to not-focus on something means focusing on not focusing on it. So I decided to heck it and join the rest on the upper deck.

Most of the trip was either spent on traveling to and from the feeding grounds and waiting for the whales to appear. An uncle stood at the top deck looking out for the whales. Then he’d shout 'LEFT’ or ‘RIGHT’ and everyone would rush to the sides of the boat armed with their cameras. Sperm whales to be exact. We’d watch them blow their blowholes, until they are satisfied with puffing away (which can take minutessssss), THE moment comes when the uncle shouts ‘DIVING!’. They’d then dive gracefully and everyone would be clicking away at their cameras when Moby Dick shows its tail off before heading to the bottom of the sea, where it can stay for up to 40 minutes. As part of the package, we got to see 3 dives. In between, it was a lot of sitting around and waiting. I was so bored and suggested that we should just shout ‘RIGHT RIGHT!’ and hide behind something! Of course we didn’t do it, coz the boat was too small for us to be able to hide any decent, and besides, there was no place to run if they found out it were us.

blowing its blowhole

'DIVING!'

diving video, you can tell how rocky the boat was, and hear everyone shout 'DIVING!!'

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On the way back, I found out that pl’s camera not only has a screen saver, it has games too!

Now are those created needs or what?!