Whale Watching v2

We went out again today to film for the whale watching commercial Ryan and I are making. I took my camera today so that we didn't have to worry about getting the nice camera wet. It was great to use my camera because I had my rain cover, and could have used my underwater case if things had gotten too serious! The second trip deserves another entry because we saw some things that we didn't see last week. As we left the harbor, we went right through a pod of spinner dolphins. Those things like jumping all over the place! Its obvious how they get their name, when they come out of the water they spin, doing full barrel rolls. Its crazy!

We also took a detour to go see some sharks. A shark encounter boat had stopped, and so we watched them and drove around. There were heaps of sharks swimming all over the place. There was even one guy hand feeding the sharks. I definitely need to get in the shark cage while I'm here. They were Galapagos sharks, according to the captain. Here they are hand feeding the sharks. Pretty crazy how they do that, kinda like the crocodile hunter except with sharks!

We saw some whales from a close distance again today. At one point, there were a few whales following us. Apparently they are curious, so they were following the sound of the engines. We saw one whale breach really close to us, and then we saw about 12 or so breaches happen about a mile away. It's always incredible to witness them doing that!

Photo credits go to Dolly today. I didn't even take my digital camera out, just my video camera so it was good to have a backup. Faafetai lava!