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Published: February 19th 2007
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Thar she blows!!
Just one of many grey whales that I saw on my "tour". Can you believe that the lunch included in the tour was TUNA???? Sick.... Today I went on the whale watching tour at 8 am this morning. Mike didn't go b/c his back is acting up and it is a good thing b/c the bus ride was bumpy and the boat ride back was bad! I met a couple who used to live in Michigan but now are in Scotsdale, AZ. The gal used to work at CMU and her husband lived in Alma for 3 years! Small world
The whale excursion was interesting and we saw loads of grey whales and their babies. Every winter the whales come into the lagoon from the northern waters to birth and train their babies. I saw a lot of babies and moms. It was hard to get the pictures of the whales b/c they come up fast and then go down and then you have to get the camera focused! One of the whales came up to one of the boats and seemed to be actually playing! It went under the boat and actually PUSHED it up a bit w/ its head!!! Some of the folks in the boat actually touched the whale!
Guerrero Negro is also known for for its salt flats and supposedly
Tough photo taking!
This REALLY is the tail of one of the grey whales...I saw several but never could get a good shot! is the world's largest producer of salt. On the way to see the whales, we passed the salt flats and learned that after the salt is cleaned they use the residue from that and put it on their roads---I guess we were supposed to be impressed by the washboard quality provided by this natural substance??? LOL.
We also went to the bank and actually had success getting some $$ out of the ATM. We are not sure how that is possible b/c we learned that our bank (AFTER WE GOT HERE) was issuing new debit cards and that the old ones would no longer work. We have contacted our bank and hope we can get it figured out.
We plan to leave tomorrow....will update later...........
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Booge
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Did you get a new camera? Those look really nice.. I'm jealous. Cool pics of the whales. Too bad you couldn't get a good shot!! But I still thought they were pretty nice. Tell dad I hope his back gets better!