Calm seas, drove the boat for almost half the day, a porpoise paradise, white-sided dolphins wanted to play....
and the most AMAZING humpback whale breaches!! You know those videos you see with the angelic choir singing as a whale lifts itself out of the water, pirouettes in the air and lands in a resounding splash??
Yeah, that's my life now.
I know there's a lot of you in the world that don't believe, but today, I saw the work that G-d can do. One of the best shabbats of my life. Shavuah tov everyone! Have a most splendid week!
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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Active Animals!
I drove the boat and saw a humpback whale "tail breach" today!! Totally makes up for all the rain and wind and waves on the way out!
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Monday, August 26, 2013
They were THIS Close!
More humpbacks today! An 8 hour day on the water, a Cow and Calf pair (mom and baby) and OHMYGERD THEY CAME SO CLOSE TO THE BOAT!!! We were waiting for them to come up for air and all of a sudder they were right beside the boat!! Restarted my heart, that's for sure!!
Also, grey seals.
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Also, grey seals.
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
First Day in Mingan!
First day on the boat!
Nothing like a sea state of 4 (on a scale from 0-9; 0 being so calm you could use the surface to put your makeup on, 9 being a tsunami in a thunderstorm with the Kraken) to get your sealegs up a running!
But more importantly... HUMPBACK WHALES!!! Honest-to-goodness-real-life-right-in-front-of-my-face HUMPBACK WHALES!!!
Of you thought orcas were big...
Also minke whales, North Atlantic white-sided dolphins and harbour porpoises. T'was a good, good day!
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Monday, August 5, 2013
TV in Review: Shark Week 2013
SHARK WEEK
RAWR! This past week was shark week on Discovery channel. One of the few times that all of us who love marine mammals seriously consider switching professions. One of the few times where people are rooting for the predator. One of the few times we can laugh at the stupidity of people around wild animals without feeling like traitors.
This year, however, was severely disappointing. Discovery Channel, once upon a time you were a channel for learning and, well, discovery. Now I'm surprised you haven't picked up Jersey Shore.
The shows they did for shark week were all show, little to no learning. In fact, to kick it off, they played a "documentary" about scientists going on the "hunt" for the Megalodon, an ancient shark species thought to be extinct.
Except their scientists were paid actors. Their "shark expert" was a shark filmographer. And their evidence... was staged.
I mean, what the heck!? At least have the decency not to besmirch the good name of marine biologists everywhere, who were watching this saying "this is the least scientifically accurate show I've ever seen."
And it didn't stop there. These shows were all about the sights and sounds and a couple explosions. What happened to educating people on sharks, and also getting to watch some dramatized re-enactments of shark attacks that, oh I don't know, actually happened??
Sprinkled in were some standing favourites of DC, including Mythbusters and River Monsters, and at least those held some science, as much as they usually do, but they have the disclaimers that they are not real scientists and that's not the true point of their shows.
Shark Week 2013, you were a major dissapointment. Not too sure if I'll be interested in 2014.
And I'll stick with my whales, thank you very much.
Speak Loud!
RAWR! This past week was shark week on Discovery channel. One of the few times that all of us who love marine mammals seriously consider switching professions. One of the few times where people are rooting for the predator. One of the few times we can laugh at the stupidity of people around wild animals without feeling like traitors.
This year, however, was severely disappointing. Discovery Channel, once upon a time you were a channel for learning and, well, discovery. Now I'm surprised you haven't picked up Jersey Shore.
The shows they did for shark week were all show, little to no learning. In fact, to kick it off, they played a "documentary" about scientists going on the "hunt" for the Megalodon, an ancient shark species thought to be extinct.
Except their scientists were paid actors. Their "shark expert" was a shark filmographer. And their evidence... was staged.
I mean, what the heck!? At least have the decency not to besmirch the good name of marine biologists everywhere, who were watching this saying "this is the least scientifically accurate show I've ever seen."
And it didn't stop there. These shows were all about the sights and sounds and a couple explosions. What happened to educating people on sharks, and also getting to watch some dramatized re-enactments of shark attacks that, oh I don't know, actually happened??
Sprinkled in were some standing favourites of DC, including Mythbusters and River Monsters, and at least those held some science, as much as they usually do, but they have the disclaimers that they are not real scientists and that's not the true point of their shows.
Shark Week 2013, you were a major dissapointment. Not too sure if I'll be interested in 2014.
And I'll stick with my whales, thank you very much.
Speak Loud!
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