Barbara and Bruce took me out in their boat for a whale-watching excursion. He took us to the place where the whale watching boats go. The humpbacks started to emerge pretty close to the boat. I made some attempts to take pictures, but in the end decided I was losing to much of the experience by trying to snap a pic. The coolest thing is the sounds they make – the loud groan as they emerge through the water surface and then dive backdown, their tails peaking out through the water.
Barbara insisted that we move to the buoy where the sea lions hang out. Too cute, a bald eagle was sitting atop the buoy while several sea lions were sunning themselves at the bottom. A little lion was trying to hop aboard, but no luck.
We then skiffed to steal a few dungeness from their friends' crabpot. We did get advance permission via cellphone, but there was some worry that the neighbors would shoot us. Bruce pulled the on the barnacle-encrusted roap (yuck) and pulled the pot up through 40 feet of water. Lucky us, there were 5 crabs in the pot. He took 2, the others were thrown back into the water, as was the pot.
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