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<\/p>\nI am often so intent on driving thousands of kilometres in pursuit of dreams that I don't realise that sometimes what I am looking for passes by my front door.<\/p>\n
and this seems like a parable of my life, (which it is) because of something I saw this weekend right here in Virginia Beach, and which has me very excited.<\/p>\n
It turns out that humpback whales come to Virginia during these months to mate. This is where these critters have me a bit confused, because they must be the only living beings that come to Virginia for this purpose, !! if this is boring as hell !!! (although maybe this is one of the reasons why they are in danger of extinction...).<\/p>\n
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So on Saturday I went on a little boat, to see if I could get lucky and see them (not mating, I'm not that bad yet...).<\/p>\n
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But of course, one of the drawbacks of wildlife is that they appear when they want to, so we spent two long hours of fruitless searching. Just in case, when we were about to give up and go back to the coast, I tried saying that universal call phrase that mysteriously all animals understand: piiiiiiiiiiit, pitas pitas pitas, pitas....<\/p>\n
and then a huge whale appeared, which according to my calculations was about 20 metres long, (as you can imagine, I have probably underestimated the number of metres, so let's round it up to 30 to be more exact).<\/p>\n
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The bad thing is that as I am so \"smart\", that just when I started to dance for us, I realised that my camera had run out of battery and that I couldn't take any more pictures. But in order not to leave you with the desire to see more pictures of my whale, I decided to make some sketches. They are not like the photos, but they have the charm of craftsmanship.<\/p>\n
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yet the picture has more resolution than the camera of my \"latest generation\" nokia ....<\/p>\n
The stories of mermaids have their origins in the song of the humpback whale that made sailors fall in love. Tastes have evolved a lot, because I think they're cute, but from there to falling in love... Just in case, I covered my ears, I didn't want to see myself at this point eloping with one of them.<\/p>\n
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Well, I'm aware that this entry doesn't give much more than that. What a marine Saturday I've had, first whale watching, then seal watching at night in downtown (sorry for being so vulgar, but it just slipped out), and to round off the day, I had a crab feast with that spicy sauce that they know how to make here like nowhere else.<\/p>\n
As I love the sea, I should have become a sailor...<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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