Grays at play

Tonight we sat on our little bluff, watching the water and the dogs running on the beach. The girls were down near the rocks, and suddenly Caroline hollered and waved frantically, pointing at the water. And there was the fluke of a whale!

The three cousins watched from the beach, with baby Vivian.

I grabbed my Nikon and ran. The rocks gave us a great vantage point for photographing first one, then two, then three whales. It was awesome to be so close to them, even though they never threw themselves into the air, just rolled and waved their fins, and once in a while splashed a tail hard on the water. Caroline looked up whale anatomy online, and we're pretty sure these were gray whales, and pretty sure there were two adults and one baby.

The whales worked their way along the shore, following the tide as it came in, and stayed until it got too dark to see them.