Whale watching

Hola!

I went on my first "tourist" excursion today, I went whale watching. It was very nice. We were on a small boat with only 14 passengers. Which means we were nimble and could get closer than the bog boats due to regulations.

The mission was to find humpback whales. We did, in fact, see several. Mostly just coming to the surface to breath and then dive again. These sightings were cool cause sometimes we were pretty close to them.

A couple of times, from further away, we saw some playing. Twice we saw one jump almost completely out of the water. And once a baby rolled over its mother's back and exposed its side fins and belly a bit. Very neat! Then we saw some dolphins and some of the clients actually jumped into the water to swim with them. It didn't last long, but it was cool to watch. I did not go in because I did not have my bathing suit cause I didn't know that this would be an option.

The same company offers a trip that is just about dolphins and swimming with them. I was thinking about doing that- we'll see.

Yesterday, I met Sam and her friends for lunch, and then dinner. Sam is the woman who owns the hacienda where I took the mosaic classes last year. Her friends Terez and Debbie were super nice people. The picture is of us at the beach for lunch. There was a jewelry sales guy and the ladies were busy looking!

The last picture in this group is of some boats we saw at the marine while preparing for whale watching. We thought the guy in the little row boat was too funny! He was paddling with a kayak paddle, backwards in the boat, and if one of the pelicans had landed on his boat, he would have gone under!