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Dear Friends,
Well, despite many predictions that we would all end up in
the belly of a whale, we returned safe and sound from
our whales trip to the Silver Banks off the coast of the Dominican
Republic.
Yes, it was awesome. And it had it's share of surprises. It
took a couple of days of careful searching before we found some
whales who showed as much interest in us as we had in them. This
was very different behavior than when they're up here in New
England, where they're happy to come over and say hello between
mouthfuls of food.
 I was delighted
when we found a mother, calf and escort who let us get in the water with
them. I felt great love and respect, my skin tingling, as the calf came
up to check us out. He swam out from underneath his mom and ever so
gracefully twirled his body, his long white pectoral fins draping gently
across his body. As he rose, his eyes met mine, and I felt a wonderful sense
of recognition flow between us. We were two souls seeing each
other behind the masks of our physicality.
I was on the surface barely ten feet away from where he came
to the surface. I watched mesmerized as his fluke moved gently
past me. Then up came his mom, who was HUGE.
Two nights before, I'd had a dream where a baby whale had
swum up to me and gently nibbled the cheek on my face.
His lips felt soft and tender, rubbery, like those of a horse
taking sugar from your hand. This encounter was every bit as
real as being in the water with them.
I've attached a photo of the baby here for you to look at. He's
almost twenty feet long, and the large dark colored mass above him is
mom! Looking into his eye, don't you feel a wonderful sense of love and
connection to him?
Wishing you each many blessings, |
