Thursday, June 4, 2015

6-4-15 A Natural Jacuzzi - Whale Style!

Thursday, June 4 - the afternoon
...every encounter with the whales is unique...some more unique than others...
...on a late afternoon trip with Capt. Jim on the Peregrine we went down island to see J pod whales...
...little did we know that the seas were building...
...but what makes for a better jacuzzi than choppy water, going every which way...
...add to that - kelp - the whales' form of a loofah!

...their jacuzzi lasted a few minutes, and they seemed to take several more, though shorter, jacuzzis while we watched them...
...to get things started...

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...this was fascinating to watch...what were they doing?  They know!




...not sure but it looks like a peek of Mike's teeth...

...they began to move on...you can see her little teeth...

...as they moved on Alki J-36 was pushing her baby, J-52...



If I could have I would have taken video, but it was just too choppy and you would have needed motion sickness pills just to watch it!

2 comments:

Traci said...

Love this encounter!

Jeanne said...

Thanks Traci! I think the whales did too!