Yahoo for whale sightings

Just a picture of what the coast looks like around here. The rocks show so many different colors, it`s amazing.
This is the Steller sea lion haul out.
This is a really bad picture of me, but this is my friend Caitlin.
This is probably my best picture of one of the grey whales that we saw.

Greetings Folks! At this very moment I am looking out my window and watching a raccoon. Anyhow we went on a full day boat trip today around the islands to check out the wildlife, as seen above. We saw many gray whales, a few humpbacks, a couple harbor porpoises, a haul out of harbor seals, one sea otter, and a huge haul out of sea lions. For those of you that don`t know what a haul out is, it`s when all the animals are resting on the rocks together. It was pretty amazing. I love riding on boats. I was cold for quite a bit of the time, but having the water spray in your face was amazing. I almost fell asleep a couple times because it`s just relaxing, like putting a baby in a car. Instantly they are put to sleep.

We are all super chilled right now and just plan on doing work and play some cards tonight. No one has the energy to do things. Oh some other exciting news is that yesterday I ran for the first time since before my surgery . . . without pain!! I was so excited. It was only for about 20 minutes but it was hilly and my first time. Today my roommate Allison wanted to go so we went out again. Already I am getting better. However I was incredibly sore today and realized how few muscles we use like that on a daily basis.

The food is great up here. We have had a variety of things and the salad bar is always open. They always serve a big breakfast, like eggs, sausage, pancakes, etc, but, as you should already know, I just eat cereal. Some fruit too, but no big breakie. I love my cereal too much. However I am going to have a big one on Saturday and Sunday is brunch at 10:30, so that will be good too I think. On Sunday is a 150 year celebration of the coast guard so they are having a huge open house and a navy ship is coming in and going to be open for tours. It should be awesome. On Saturday our class is going on a full day hike on part of the west coast trail.

I just love it here. I miss certain things (popcorn) and people back home, but right at this moment I wouldn`t want to be back in city life. It`s really a great place. And after 6 weeks I am sure that I will be ready to go home. Hope you are all keeping it real! Later days!