All Kinds of Ocean

It has been a couple days of big blue (ocean) stuff over here.

Yesterday, Mike got to go on a shark bite call (the victim is going to be fine. Lucky man!)!! If you are a paramedic or are married to one, you know how cool this is! Anyway...

Something Mike and I have noticed is that we haven't seen any dolphins up here. Odd!

Remember on Friday, when I mentioned whale watching? Well, we went today and we had success!! We didn't have to go far from home (maybe 20 minutes).

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We didn't get a picture but we are pretty sure what we saw was a Gray Whale. Not much is really known about whales. If you want to know more about whales in general, click here. It was SO COOL! There was a whale, seals (or sea lions), and I'm sure all kinds of other things. We saw a fin come out of the water and that's when we found the whale. Their fins are huge (even 300-400 yards away from our lookout point). So cool. I don't even know what else to say. :D

"Praise the Lord from the earth,

you great sea creatures and all deeps."

Psalm 148:7 (ESV)

My brother had a shirt he loved that had whales on it. He'll even tell you now, he loved that shirt.

And for your viewing pleasure:

{wearing maxi-skirts before they were cool #trendsetter}

After that we headed north and found a beach (thanks to some direction from my father-in-law) that was COVERED in driftwood. Some people had made forts and there were lots of birds. Yay! Pelicans!

{Whoa driftwood!}

{sorry for the poor quality. I was trying to get closer to the birds...}

{cool rock that you could almost peel apart.}

{more driftwood}

{driftwood fort}

{another driftwood fort. Mike made sure no one was living in this one first. ;) }

How was your Monday?

Have you ever been whale watching?

What's the coolest animal you've seen? Why?

~Emily~