[CINC] Double Dolphin-4/27

[paul jr petrich]

Hello colloquies,
 Captain Gary and and deck hand Colton took 28 passengers out on the Double Dolphin at 10 a.m. The 1 p.m. trip was reserved for a spreading of ashes service . The weather was Santa Barbara perfect, and the sea was calm. On the way west we sighted 5 robust and playful Bottle Nose  dolphin. We were over a half a mile off shore at Moore Mesa. My thinking was that these were the Offshore sub-species, as they were very large and robust. Some 5 years ago I remember spotting a meg -pod of them way out by Anacapa or SantaCruz Island.
 On the way homeward the Condor radioed a Grey sighting ahead of us. We cut power and waited for a large and fast moving single Grey come to us. This was good, as we had many aboard who had never seen a whale. Among these was a family, who had three young children, now living at Vandenberg AFB, who were on their second raincheck try. The kids were besides themselves with delight. The family moved from Wyoming. We had visitors from Denmark, Portugal, and the UK who had never seen a whale as well. All the latter passengers from Europe were very surprised to learn that the Grey whales extinction in the Atlantic was a price paid for the early industrialization of their continent.   Paul Petrich
 
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