Laine's Blog, Thinking Out Loud

What I miss...

 

If you ask me what I miss most

from my time on Cape Cod

it is this -

these amazing animals!

 

 

While working on the Whale Watch boats

I found myself eye to eye with a beautiful

Humpback Whale.

I was all alone on the back of the boat 

and there she was with her huge eye

looking right at me!

 

I'll never forget that!

 

 

 

Photos taken in 2015, my last whale watch so far!

©LaineQuinn2024

 

 

 

Home...

 

 

When all is said and done,

we are all just walking each other home.

                                                          Ram Das

 

 

 

 

 

Humpback Whales, Cape Cod

©LaineQuinn

In Sync...

 

These two pelicans, flying and diving together in the shallow waters of Tampa Bay, 

in time to their own music -

Reminded me of the two humpback whales dining together off Cape Cod,

and the pilot whales, cruising in perfect harmony.

 

Occasionally humans can, without a word, step together harmoniously to the shared music of life.

It's great fun when it happens,

and like the dance instructor said,

"Don't worry if you misstep, it's part of the fun!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reprinted from LainesBlog February 2013.

©LaineQuinn2023

 

These two pelicans, flying and diving together in the shallow waters of Tampa Bay, 

in time to their own music -

Reminded me of the two humpback whales dining together off Cape Cod,

and the pilot whales, cruising in perfect harmony.

 

Occasionally humans can, without a word, step together harmoniously to the shared music of life.

It's great fun when it happens,

and like the dance instructor said,

"Don't worry if you misstep, it's part of the fun!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reprinted from LainesBlog February 2013.

©LaineQuinn2023

 

Just Ask Any Whale...

 

It's a good idea to embrace

the other's otherness,

because

we are the other's other.

 

 

Just ask any whale!

 

 

 

 

 

We are all in this together!

Two Whales, ©2015, Laine Quinn, Cape cod

It Was A Good Day!

 

 

 

 

 

A good day indeed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finback Whale and Humpbacks off Cape Cod on the Dolphin Fleet out of Provincetown. 

Thank You!

 

Thar She Blows!

 

 

On our way back to the dock,

leaving the Humpback whales to their stomping grounds,

and the humans to forage on land.

 

 

 

 

Whale watching on Cape Cod with the Dolphin Fleet.

This I miss the most!

More photos tomorrow!

 

Related articles

Rare footage shows five humpback whales breaching in near unison

Have a Seat!

 

 

Lobster traps and buoys.

And a place to sit,

On your way down the pier.

 

 

 

 

 

Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

(Apologies to the friends I didn't get to see!)

 

 

Whale Blessings

 

 

In Spring and early Summer the Right whales feed just off the beaches in Provincetown.

You can spend an afternoon with them,

watching and listening to their unusual sounds,

receiving the blessings freely offered.

 

The ancient whales have observed human evolution for millenium,

and know things that we can only guess at.

Although we might be a bit of a dissapointment to them,

they seem always to bless us and raise our spirits,

teasing us to higher ground.

 

 

 

 

Photo of a Humpback Whale, out of Provincetown, doing what the humans call "tail slapping". The whales probably have another name for it! 

 

 

 

 

 

Water Sculptures, Sort of...

 

Water is the architect of much of our world.

Beaches are rearranged daily by oceans and tides.

 

 

Snow is rained upon, melts, and refreezes in amazingly similar ways.

 

 

 

 

And this wonderful creature spends all of her time in water

and the lines along her body are

a lot like the sandy beach above.

 

 

 

 

1. St. Augustine Beach

2. Baltimore backyard, with snow.

3. Humpback Whale, rolling in the Atlantic Ocean.

 

Cloud Signs

 

December 3, 2001

C-Scape Dune Shack, evening.

 

Walking back toward the shack today after hiking & scketching & napping - I was planning on some lunch -

However there was a group of clouds over the shack in an otherwise cloudless sky. These clouds looked like stylized - Beautifully stylized dolphins in the wild in and out of the water - Just Beautiful & the whole configuration was sort of in the shape of a diamond. So me thinks to meself - maybe there are dolphins in the ocean just over the dune here. So I go inside and put my things away & get my binoculars.

I go down to the beach & think - well the clouds are really over Race Pt and I'm not walking to race Pt. 

So I'm watching the ducks and the Loons and Lo and behold I see splashing in the distance - lots of splashing then I see spouts & dorsal fins & then tails and a few breaches! perhaps some dolphins but most definitely whales!

How wonderful & so cosmic to have that cloud enlighten me to visitors in the neighborhood!

I looked over my shoulder to acknowledge the cloud & it had disappeared!

Disappeared!

 

 

 

 

 

 Photo taken several years prior to the above entry from a whale watch boat.

 Grammer and spelling are true to the original entry!

 

 

 

The Secret Language of Dancers

 

 

These two pelicans, flying and diving together in the shallow waters of Tampa Bay, 

in time to their own music,

 

 

reminded me of the two humpback whales dining together off Cape Cod,

and the pilot whales, dancing in perfect harmony.

 

 

Occasionally humans can, without a word, step together harmoniously to shared music.

It's great fun when it happens,

and like the dance instructor said,

 

"Don't worry if you misstep, it's part of the fun and just like life.

Make it part of the dance until you can find the rhythm again!"

 

 

(Sorry, no photos of the humans dancing, as they are very difficult to photograph in the wild!)

 

 

A Very Good Year

 

 

The year that this photo was shot was a very good year for whale watching.

"Very good," being defined as lots and lots of whales.

 

What's a very good year for you?

Lots and lots of...?

 

Fill in the blank.

 

Sometimes our most difficult years turn out to be our best.

 

It's nice when it works out that way.

 

 

 

Photograph entitled "Just a Fluke" was shot off Provincetown in a very good year.