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Published: January 31st 2012
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Yet another lazy day at sea today so we went to 2 lectures this morning. The first was
all about the whales and dolphins that inhabit these waters off the west coast of
Mexico. And we were really glad we went because now we know that the two grey things
that looked a bit like acrobatic turtles swimming the wrong way up were actually the
flippers of grey whales. Apparently three quarters of the world's grey whales winter
here as well as lots of hump back whales, the blue whale and the whale shark. We also
learnt lots about bottle nosed dolphins who then played their part perfectly by turning
up at least 3 times toay. The most spectacular sighting was another of those massive
pods of hundreds of dolphins. You could see a patch of sea almost boiling and it turned
out to be hundreds of dolphins with lots of them do somersaults and twists and turns and
all the things you normally only get to see at a water park. Unfortunately we'd left
our camera on macro so it was great for anything up to about 8 inches away. Sadly the
dolphins were slightly further off than that! But we did our best to photograph them
and so if you go to Facebook you can see Richard's picture of them. It's a pretty
amazing sight.
The second lecture of the morning was Gerald Scarfe again, this time talking about his
work with Pink Floyd and Disney. He is far more talented than I had ever realised
previously and is very open about his views on the various politicians and royals that
he has drawn during his long career with the Sunday Times and other publications. He is
a brilliant speaker and clearly takes great delight in shocking some of the Americans on
board with some of his more controversial pictures. It was a great use of an hour's
time.
The rest of the day was given over to the usual hard work on board a cruise ship:
eating, drinking, swimming, reading, listening to music (with the extra chore of trying
to decide what the heck to listen to!). Tonight we had to go and say hello to the
Captain. Not that the fancy dan cocktail scene is really where we fit in best but the
champagne was free so why not.
It's another sea day tomorrow so lots more scanning the ocean for sightings of turtles
and dolphins etc before we arrive in Cabo San Lucas on Wednesday to go snorkelling on
the coral reefs.
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