Deep, dark secret
Pssst…Come over here. Shhhhhh! Don’t tell anyone!
Especially the dotter.
Those Orcas we saw Saturday?
Um…
They weren’t Orcas.
They were Dall’s Porpoises.
OmegaDad was skeptical about Orcas riding the bow wave. His first thought was some type of conspiracy theory which I couldn’t quite figure out, but anyway, he kept insisting that Orcas don’t do that, and that little Orcas (i.e., babies) stay with their moms for two years, and we should have seen big Orcas around if we were seeing babies. There was some discussion about maybe painting porpoises black and white…
So he consulted The Google. He came up the the Dall’s Porpoise. At bedtime, as I was snuggling down with my book to read a bit, he sat down on my side of the bed, leaned towards me, and said, “This is a secret. You are not to tell the dotter!”
And he Revealed All.
My response: Damn, I’m bummed! Oh, it was magical, yes, but now it’s not quite as magical as I thought it was. Wah.
Yesterday’s picture? It’s apparently a classic; if you scroll down to the Dall’s Porpoise part of this page about Monterey Bay, you’ll see almost exactly the same picture.
Please don’t tell the dotter!
The good side: We’ll obviously have to go out again next year…
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