[CINC] What a Gift!

[TARA BROWN]

Thank you Captain Dave --- who hobbled to the top deck to do the sightings and provided incredible insight and peaceful appreciation to our surroundings,
and to Bob Perry (who brought me a CONDOR CALENDAR) --- have you seen it on the website?  
and to Tasha who cooked an incredible burrito, Matt who helped out on deck, Don Gillies who Photo IDed, and especially Cubby ---who gave me a Gray Whale blubber sample to use at the campfire presentations. It is 1/4 inch at birth, 4" to migrate, and 12" adult approximately.
 
Due East of Stearns Wharf in the surf line, -- an incredible pod of
10 Bottlenose Dolphin (8  adult and 2 young)
Between the "Gap" of Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands:
10 Grays (3+2 + 4 + 1)
 
NO wind waves, but huge swells --- too big to even think about Painted Cave!  (One poor seasick passenger)
 
Today I learned from Captain Dave that the Caspain Sea (a land-locked sea in Eastern Russia) is the only place in the world that has more oil seeps than the Santa Barbara Channel.
  
Best regards,
Tara Brown
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