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justaprogressive

(2,577 posts) Sun Apr 7, 2024, 11:09 AM Apr 2024

These Are the Right Whales

You soar upward through a golden yellow sea, break the surface and leap, high in the air,
dipping and turning with your great flippers, hanging and laughing so weightlessly high that it
feels like you'll never come down. Up and up and up you dance, whirling, out of the sea, into
the air, beyond to the stars...

~ Norman Spinrad Songs From the Stars.

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These Are the Right Whales (Original Post) justaprogressive Apr 2024 OP

These right whales are wonderful! Thanks for sharing them, my dear justaprogressive! CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2024 #1

aww thanx Peggy justaprogressive Apr 2024 #2

What a sight that must be to experience in person. Diamond_Dog Apr 2024 #3

A profound effect justaprogressive Apr 2024 #4

I saw some at a whale watch in Monterrey. 3Hotdogs Apr 2024 #5

CaliforniaPeggy

(152,472 posts)

1. These right whales are wonderful! Thanks for sharing them, my dear justaprogressive!

Reply to justaprogressive (Original post)

Sun Apr 7, 2024, 11:18 AM

Apr 2024

justaprogressive

(2,577 posts)

2. aww thanx Peggy

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 7, 2024, 11:26 AM

Apr 2024

Had to rip them off a DVD slideshow this AM.
Part of a project I made for the halfway house where I was working at the time
( a rare case of my not having 5 backups of the data...just 4 copies of the DVD!)

Diamond_Dog

(35,177 posts)

3. What a sight that must be to experience in person.

Reply to justaprogressive (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 7, 2024, 12:14 PM

Apr 2024

The power of these animals just boggles my mind. TY for sharing!

justaprogressive

(2,577 posts)

4. A profound effect

Reply to Diamond_Dog (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 7, 2024, 12:31 PM

Apr 2024

was felt by all...

3Hotdogs

(13,571 posts)

5. I saw some at a whale watch in Monterrey.

Reply to Diamond_Dog (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 7, 2024, 01:50 PM

Apr 2024

Cape May NJ and other sites along the east coast also offer whale watching.

I took photos and one of them was a calf.--- crew member asked if I would forward it so they could use it to identify it in future by comparing barnacles and marks on the tail.

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