Crazy number of posts

Lauren and I doing what we do best . . . whale watching!

The pod of killer whales!

Greetings! Where I have the time for all these blogs is beyond me, well I guess it could be attributed to procrastination. I have a paper due on Saturday that is coming along but after putting the information in I need to revise it so it makes sense. I think that my paper writing skills aren't that good and I need some new method for writing them. My eyes are bloodshot now though and instead of getting some sleep I am going to blog a little so I don't keep my eager readers in suspense anymore.

My exam on Monday went well. Easy I thought. Tuesday we ended up going out on Brian's boat and saw a ton of gray whales, like over 40. It was crazy. He let me use his camera and so I have some really good pictures. It totally helps having a nice camera so that you actually want to take pictures. I think I might get one of those. Brian is a local guy who runs the West Coast Trail taxi boat from Port Renfrew to Bamfield. He knows pretty much everything and is so super nice.

Today we went out on a different boat to go offshoring for humpback and killer whales. In total we saw over 20 gray whales, over 20 humpback whales, 3 Dall's porpoises, 6 harbor porpoises, a lot of Steller sea lions, 4 dogfish sharks, and 20 resident killer whales! It was a great day! We saw one of the humpbacks feeding too and so we got to see the underside of it. The killer whales were amazing and came right for our boat and then swam under. They were so close that I even got some pictures with my lame camera. It was so exciting!!

We are thinking of going camping again on Saturday after we hand in our literature reviews. I am getting quite excited for that. Only 2 more weeks. How fast it has gone. Next week from Tuesday to Saturday I will be isolated in a little lighthouse cabin on the very west coast watching a sea lion haul out for 10 hours a day doing my research project. Should be entertaining. Later days!!


Humpback lunge feeding. You can see it's baleen and ventral pleets to take in water.
My favorite shot of a grey whale close to shore.