This morning I went out on the boat with Mark and Nancy and their fam. It was a calm beautiful day, so the plan was to go to the secret spot for fishing or driving around looking for seal if the flies were too bad near the shore. As we launched and pulled away from the slip, we saw a boat spinning quickly around in the little harbour back towards town. It isn't the deepest water, so we knew something was up. The only plausible reason they'd be driving quickly and spinning wildly around in the boat was for an animal, and suddenly we saw a beluga head peep out of the water. We joined them and started following around with our eyes opened. It was incredibly exciting. We seemed to notice beluga popping up in two different places. that was when we realized there was actually more than one whale.
Before we knew it, the whale was just beside our boat. There were people all along the shore, tooting their horns, pointing excitedly and waving madly when they'd see it. We weren't equipped for a hunt so we waved the other hunters over to spear the whale. We had blocked it in enough that the hunters could pull up and get him. It was very interesting to watch the speed and skill of the spear men. Once that whale was dragged back to shore, there were more boats out on the water and we all started trying to track the other belugas. We saw around 5 different whales during the day out on the water. The hunters managed to bring in two. It was very impressive. We also stopped to chat with different boat loads of people while we were out. I chose Lisa to be my photo of the day. As we talked, she kept scanning the water for a head or arching back. We were all so eager and excited! Enjoy the pictures! Everyone in town is now eating the food of the gods today, I saw lots of very excited faces bringing home lots of meat!
Theme Song for today: Fix You by Coldplay
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