Whale watching and lorikeets

I.  In hopes to find riches in hunting the whale*


Lots of gulls at the dock

DH and YC watch from railing as we pass the first lighthouse (there were 3).

Passing the Queen Mary

DH looks out to sea. Lots of sailboats within the breakwater.

Another lighthouse.

Tall ship just outside the breakwater.

The sun was shining on the sea
Shining with all its might...**

There she blows?

There she blows - Fin whale*** and blow

It was a rocky trip.

There she blows again.

Fin whale

Water bird - far out

Sailboat and DH

YC and DH watching as we head back to shore

Water birds drying their wings near the dock.

Sailboat at dockside

II.  At the Aquarium of the Pacific***:

Youngster feeds lorikeet

Lorikeets

Another young man feeding lorikeet.

Playing hard to get

Well, maybe I will try just a little.

YC finally gets a lorikeet to ride on her hand.

Petting sharks.

Jellyfish

Jellyfish

Shark

NOTES:

* Farewell to Tarwathie, by George Scroggie, Adaptation by Judy Collins
** Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter    http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16096
***http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/cetaceans/finwhale.htm
****http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/