Since I turned in my grant to the Harvard somebody-or-others yesterday and so it can get submitted to the feds on Monday, it was time to relax after three straight weeks of 12-13 hour days of writing. It felt wonderful to be busy again and it feels even better to start exploring this beautiful piece of the United States that I live in. Today, I went whale watching. Okay future tourists of Boston, get this. The New England Aquarium runs a whale watching cruise (3-4 hours) out of Boston Hahbah. They take you out to the Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary where we saw two cow-calf humpback whale pairs an additional humpback and a few minke. Seeing 'em spout off water because (as the naturalist pointed out several times) whales are mammals so they breathe air. It was a straight up stunna. On the way out, we had the Codzilla following us. Here's what it looked like with my roomie Alex trembling at the approach.
Here's a really bad picture of a whale. We did see a couple of tails come out and of course you can see 'em down in the water . . . but no, we didn't see any of them jump into the air. Hopefully next time.
And on our way back into the hahbah, there were dozens of sailboats. As Isak Dinesen said, "The cure for anything is saltwater: sweat, tears, or the sea". I think I've got the first two down so it's definitely time to get myself sailing a boat.
Since I turned in my grant to the Harvard somebody-or-others yesterday and so it can get submitted to the feds on Monday, it was time to relax after three straight weeks of 12-13 hour days of writing. It felt wonderful to be busy again and it feels even better to start exploring this beautiful piece of the United States that I live in. Today, I went whale watching. Okay future tourists of Boston, get this. The New England Aquarium runs a whale watching cruise (3-4 hours) out of Boston Hahbah. They take you out to the Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary where we saw two cow-calf humpback whale pairs an additional humpback and a few minke. Seeing 'em spout off water because (as the naturalist pointed out several times) whales are mammals so they breathe air. It was a straight up stunna. On the way out, we had the Codzilla following us. Here's what it looked like with my roomie Alex trembling at the approach.
Here's a really bad picture of a whale. We did see a couple of tails come out and of course you can see 'em down in the water . . . but no, we didn't see any of them jump into the air. Hopefully next time.
And on our way back into the hahbah, there were dozens of sailboats. As Isak Dinesen said, "The cure for anything is saltwater: sweat, tears, or the sea". I think I've got the first two down so it's definitely time to get myself sailing a boat.
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