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Monday, May 21, 2012
Saturday, May 19, 2012
A Whale of a Tale on Day Three
Hay, It's Nicole, Janet, and Christine here to tell you about our busy day. Today, we had an early breakfast then got on the bus to meet our awesome driver Roger for the long ride up the Cape from our home base of Brewster. We stopped along the way at Marconi Beach, which is located on the ocean side of the Cape or the "backyard" as the locals call it. The water was much more powerful and the waves crashed on the beach. We posted a picture of Ms. Palmer and the boys getting surprised with wet feet when posing for a picture. Then we walked and ran through the trails of White Cedar Swamp. We noticed the change in plants from the sand dunes to the swamp. The plants went from very short trees and bushes on the dunes to tall White Cedar trees in the swamp. We got lost on the trails that could have been better marked. From there we got back on the bus to head to Provincetown. Once we got there we walked around and shopped for a while. We boarded our whale boat at 12:30 and went about 6 miles out into the ocean to find the whales. The first whale we found was a very playful guy and breached in front of the boat. He kept slapping the water with his fin. We saw a total of 18 humpback whales, 1 minke whale, and 4 fin whales. Most of the whales were feeding on the school of sand eels that were swimming under the boat. Then they would dive down and showed us their tails. After 2 hours of being entertained by these marine mammals, we headed back into shore. We found Roger and headed down to Chatham Beach in search of seals but sadly we didn't find any. From there it was a rush back to camp for dinner before the dinner hall closed. Just before dusk, we played with an awesome Frisbee that Hazel brought that can fly super long distances. One more day in Boston ahead of us and then we will fly back to Buffalo tomorrow evening. This is Nicole, Christine, and Janet signing off. We will see you soon! :)
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