At Sea … Critters Everwhere

We are at sea today … heading to our last port in Mexico.

My plan was to have a quiet day on the veranda, doing a bit of private journaling to flesh out the footprints that I keep rather brief. Well, the quiet part worked out. But there are too many critters in the ocean around us, so the writing bit has not been very fruitful. No worries, I’ll get it done at some point.

What have we been seeing? Some boobies flying about. Some big fish … with what looked like blue fins. A pod or two of dolphins … some of them so close to the ship that they were literally pounding the ocean to get out of the way. Sea turtles galore … mostly distant … but some close enough to the ship that I was able to actually get a video … sleeping on the surface is my guess.

And the surprise? What I think was a small pod of transient orcas … the fin on the one nearest to the ship was just too big for a dolphin. Orcas are now being seen where they haven’t been seen in the past — including in the grey whale birthing waters — so my questionable ID is just possibly correct.Læs mere