Pets

If only you could pet these on your lap.........Brenda would get one!!!!!

Feeding a "Land Whale"

Brenda, who is the world’s biggest dog lover that DOES NOT own a dog, is diversifying. We took a photo safari through the San Diego Zoo’s 1800 acre Wild Animal Park where we had an opportunity to see African and Asian animals in an almost natural habitat. I think giraffes have displaced dogs as Brenda’s favourite four legged mammal. She took every possible opportunity to feed them. Both the San Diego Zoo in the city and, their rural Wild Animal Park are world famous with good cause. They are sooo well done and, there are major improvements in process at both locations.

Whales are not quite as cuddly as giraffes but it is always an awesome (one of the correct uses of this word) experience to see them in the wild. The California Grey Whales are in the middle of their northern, spring (you know…..sunny and warm!) migration and, a perfect day on the water was highlighted with “up close and personal” contact with them. Although the large, 400 passenger boat we were on is a less intimate viewing platform than the fishing boats we have been on in the Bay of Fundy, the offset is the extra height of the craft, enabling better distance viewing. We saw a young mother and calf, following them for over ½ hour. Their ability to blow, breathe and dive is faster than my ability to focus and click the shutter. I have many pictures of smooth water where a whale had been an instant before. Oh well….it was a great day.