Whale Watching

Picture of the Day for 7/14/2013. I went on a 2-1/2 hour whale-watching cruise off the coast of Newport Beach, CA. A crew member on the boat said it was the best expedition they've had in more than a year. It was pretty spectacular. We sailed through a large pod of dolphins leaping and playing by our boat. That would have been sufficiently cool, but we were lucky enough to encounter a blue whale that we were able to follow for about an hour. The whale would surface three times to get air and then do a deep dive for two minutes before reappearing.