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01/20/06 - Puerto Vallarta, MX (Photos) A little vacation-style fun-whale-watching-trip before heading home to San Miguel |
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With the work we came to do around the condo almost finished, we decided to take a "vacation day" (having a plumber in your only bathroom for a day and a half and then cleaning up after him can be a little stressful...) and go for a little boat ride to see some whales. At the marina docks, we boarded a small cabin cruiser-style boat with just four other people, a couple about our age from the Denver area (although we were guessing downriver, MI, for those of you familiar with Michigan geography) and the woman's parents, who we repeatedly heard, have a villa here in PV that they bought after selling their yacht. They smoked and drank the whole trip, with the older woman using her binoculars obsessively and periodically yelling out things like "one o'clock, one o'clock!" in her bird-poop stained white outfit. Company aside, the weather was gorgeous, the water was calm and everyone in the small boat had a great spot for viewing the dozens of whales we saw. (Sorry, Chad and Dawn, this trip blew our previous whale-I mean-dolphin-watching trip away and we didn't have to wear coats and scarves either, but we had a good time reminiscing and laughing about that day!) We saw lots of whales (ok, mostly whale backs and tails) and for our grand finale, right before we headed back in, we saw a whale that did a full breach for us, jumping out of the water and twisting and turning, like you see on the pages of National Geographic! It was quite spectacular and a wonderful end to the trip. |
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