We have snaked out of the U.S. and back into B.C. MV Imperial Shadow spent the day in Prince Rupert, while we ventured forth to see cetaceans from yet another catamaran.
Again it was a day of miraculous sun. It’s almost drought conditions here, and I’ll return to New Mexico full of tales of the Inside Passage and its balmy subtropical climate. Friends will show up in their tropical shirts and Bermuda shorts, only to spend days with jets of freezing water shooting down their necks.
Behold a photo of a pod of humpback whales engaged in “bubble fishing,” wherein a whale creates a circular column of rising bubbles to entrap a cloud of small fish, then— with its pals– rising through the column with their vast mouth wide open to gulp down as many fishies as ever they can. The mouth is truly enormous, though as the digestive tract is the width of a small pipe, no human person has ever been swallowed without being promptly spat out again.
The humpbacks engaged in this behavior again and again, much to the delight of their audience. All the pictures I took were absolute crap— wrong focus, wrong frame, wrong target, wrong timing— but all those in the Appleverse shared their pics via Airdrop. I have no idea who took this picture, but it’s a dandy.
