A Three Hour Tour…

Alternate Titles I considered:

Wanna Get Sea Sick Go Whale Watching?

In Which Meghan Nearly Pees Herself From Excitement

In Which Meghan DOES Pee Herself From Excitement

In Which You Hear Meghan Say OH MY GOD 1,000 Times

Dylan: Terrified of Creatures Who Breathe

Dylan: Likes Dolphins & Sea Lions, Hates Whales

Whale Rider

Zach Gets Left Behind While Family Goes on Mighty Ocean Adventure

Meghan’s Life Long Dream Finally Fulfilled

How To Ruin Every Boating Trip For The Rest Of Your Life…

What’s the deal? You ask…Before I show you, I have to warn you. I took this video with my crappy camera while I was on the OCEAN. It’s not steady. AT ALL. Plus, I’m so god-damned cold, excited and a little freaked out that I’m shaking like a leaf. Consider yourself warned. Oh-and turn your volume up so you can hear them (and me and Dylan and DJ).

This is the deal:

Photo Sharing – Video Sharing – Photo Printing – Photo Books

If you look closely at this next one, you can see a Sea Lion playing with the “little” whale that’s jumping. It was crazy! The sea lion would swim along with them and then jump out of the water and then the whale would jump out of the water…they were totally feeding off each other. I’ve never seen anything like it and I probably won’t ever again. But you can bet your ass I’ll try!

Photo Sharing – Video Sharing – Photo Printing – Photo Books

Holy SHIT!!! We were searching for dolphins and saw these beasts. THREE separate sets of them. And an ORCA and tons of Sea Lions and we even found the dolphins we’d been searching for. They played with our boat’s wake. It was awesome.

I can’t even put into words how awesome it was. I could hardly contain myself. I was like a kid in a candy store. We have Grey Whales up and down the coast a few times a year and it’s always fun to see them, but I’ve never ventured far enough into the channel (we were about 6 miles off the coast) to see Humpback’s or Blue Whales. It was…awe inspiring. It was humbling. It kicked ASS. We were the only boat in the area (there was another boat, a big whale watching rig, about 3 miles away just hanging out, presumably watching more whales, but we were all alone with our whales. And we were close to them. It was a little freaky. Dylan hated the sound they made when they came up for air, so he cried and covered his ears. He was much happier when we moved on and found dolphins…”they’re little and quiet” is why he said he liked them.

I’m rambling. I can’t come up with a coherent thought or sentence about it still. I’m pissed at DJ that my camera sucks ass. I got shitty pictures. But it was awesome.

And just to clarify, I didn’t pee my pants, but I WAS that excited. My lifelong dream, to hear DJ tell it, was to have kiddos and stay at home with them. And that’s true. But before I even wanted kids…I had a thing for Humpback’s. I even had a poster in my room when I was little. And as for ruining boating? No boating experience will EVER live up to this one. I don’t think it could possibly work out this well more than once. Because OH MY GOD, as I said to my sister when I called her from the boat “THERE ARE THREE MOTHER FUCKING HUMPBACK WHALES 100 FEET AWAY FROM ME RIGHT NOW!” and then it happened again. And again.

My day kicked ass…How was your day?

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