A walk on the whale side...

It's whale season so I've been looking out for spashes and fins and tails, morning noon and night.

Keeping such a close eye on the ocean has made me appreciate again what an amazing place it is that I live.....

Beautiful, calm seas with almost cloudless skies (even in winter! the temperature topped 25 degrees today). This is the view from the balcony.

The sunrises are pretty amazing too and mornings have proved to be the best time to see the odd whale and dolphin. Unfortunately my camera broke last week so I haven't managed to take an actual photo of the passing sealife. So instead of leaving the blog without its weekly entry I have borrowed a couple of photos to give you the general idea.

After some false alarms (birds and boats can look surprisingly like whales), I've managed to see a few of them on their long journey up the east coast. See below for typical example of killer whale behaviour - the whales travelling up our coast are humpbacks but I liked this picture better...