Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt: Heavy

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I was at a loss coming up with something for today’s theme at first. Then I remembered that we had pictures of an elephant at a zoo — but then I thought of this picture and decided on it.

This is from a whale show at Seaworld in Florida in April of 2002. We had gone down during spring break Jeremy’s senior year to check out Clearwater Christian College (loved it, but they didn’t have the major he wanted). We took a day to visit here. We had been to a similar place in CA once when Jesse was just a baby, and I had always wanted to go back when he was old enough to remember it, so I am glad we got the chance.

Whales are certainly heavy, but they glide through the air with such ease! So graceful!

I didn’t notice this when I first scanned the picture, but the whale on the left has a man standing on his nose (or snout? whatever you call a whale’s nose). That gives you some idea of how big these creatures are.

Jeremy and Jesse were down in the “splash zone” and were disappointed when they didn’t get wet at all — til the whale made one last pass around the tank at the end and flipped water on their section with its tail!

I am more of a homebody than a goer and a doer, but this is something I would love to see again — this and the dolphins.

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