Whale Watching

Nate and I have wanted to go Whale Watching since we moved to California. I would see Groupons all of the time for them, so finally I just bought one so we would be forced to go. We had done a babysitting swap with some friends, so they took the girls for the morning. We headed up to Long Beach, got aboard a boat, and took to sea! We managed to get an awesome view from the very front of the boat (which unfortunately made Nate slightly queasy).

We saw a huge pod of dolphins, a few hundred of them! They weren't too interested in playing in the wake of the boat like dolphins are sometimes known to do. The captain said they were probably communicating about a "bait ball" somewhere, so they were high tailing it over there. Amazing though!

Fun to see some sea lions. I always thing of the movie Andre. That's it, we're watching Andre tomorrow.

We actually got to see some whales! There were two fin whales, which are pretty rare to see. The captain was great and we got really close to them, and he timed them almost perfectly!

All in all it was a fun date! Fun to do something besides a movie, fun to do something during the day. I'm glad we only paid 30 bucks instead of 60, but I'd recommend it to people who come to visit. (P.S. It gets COLD out on the ocean, especially in the morning.)