Sunday, August 10, 2008
whales!
so. today we went whale watching (the night before we had a bonfire on brown bear feastastic beach and ithoughtiwasgonnadie and the night before i rappeled into an 80 foot hole. i may have drizzled in my pants a little) and aside from all the effing awesome stuff we saw (which i will post once i load the pics on my computer) there was this:our naturalist (whose name was BUNNY!) was telling us about the whales and how they use their baleen plates to filter food out of the water when they eat and a mouth breather asked
"how do whales drink? "
pause.
"i mean how do they drink the salt water? or do they even need to drink since they are in the water all the time? maybe they just absorb it through their skin."
bunny begins her answer with "that's an interesting question ... "
how do whales drink?
wow.
i mean, i get what she MIGHT have been getting at . .. maybe she was asking how come whales can live in and drink salt water and what is it about them that makes that possible that doesn't make it possible for us.
but "how do whales drink" is what she said.
it's like all the tourists that step off the tour ships here and ask "what's the elevation here?"
um. you just walked off a freakin' BOAT that is sitting in the OCEAN. you are AT sea level. then they make comments about not being able to get enough oxygen "at this elevation."
good times.
say it don't spray it 1:24 AM
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