After the hour ferry ride, we arrived and went over to sign up for the 2 hour whale watching tour. To my dismay and Karen’s pleasure, there was a TV camera crew there that day! They filmed the introductory speech given at the tour office and carefully panned the audience’s attentive faces. Of course they stayed a long time on our foreign faces so we feigned that we were understanding the speech. Then as we went to board the boat, the TV camera crew stopped us to ask if we spoke Japanese. I quickly said no, but Karen told them she did! I did my best to fade into the wall and stay away from the camera lens while Karen told them our story! We don’t know if we were on the news that night! I hope not!
Luckily, when it came time to board the boats, we were on the boat without the film crew so we were able to enjoy whale watching without always wondering where the camera was! This was the other boat. You can see the camera and boom mike in the back.
We saw about six humpback whales! It was incredible – something I’ve wanted to do for a long time! They were HUGE and we were so close to them (probably closer than we should have been). At one point, we were near a mother and her calf. The mother started doing a movement which the guide told us meant she was angry and feeling threatened. Of course, that prompted our boat driver to get even closer!It was difficult to take photos of them – at least half of my photos were just of the ocean, because I was torn between just experiencing it, and capturing it on film, but I managed to get a few photos of tails and water spouts.
We had planned to spend some time on the beach that afternoon, but the weather didn’t cooperate.
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