Extraordinary Privilege – From on high to down deep.
Humpback whale BCY0768 viewed lunge feeding from 700+ feet above the whale. Telephoto and cropped. Photo: Hildering
Do you have 2.5 minutes?
I’ve compressed the highlights of my marine adventures of that last 24+ hours into a little slide show. What an extraordinary privilege it has been.
Yesterday, while in a helicopter some 1,000 feet above them, I watched humpback whales lunge feed.
Today, on the way to our weekly dive, there was a bit of a diversion . . . 3 matrilines (family groups) of fish-eating killer whales needed to pass before we could proceed.
While getting into our dive gear, in the sunshine, a few Pacific white-sided dolphins swam by.
Then . . . there was the dive with so much more beauty and bounty.
Sometimes, I feel like I might explode with the wonder and privilege of it all.
Thankfully, I have avenues like this to share and to feel like I might be able to make these adventures count; to enhance understanding and conservation for all this beauty and biodiversity.
Please share in the wonder with me.
Click this link to go from high above the northeast Pacific, into her depths.
(Last video in the gallery at this link).
Diamondback nudibranch (sea slug) among red soft coral, sponge and brooding anemones. This specimen only about 5 cm long. Photo: Hildering
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4 Responses to “Extraordinary Privilege – From on high to down deep.”
Quite a day Jackie! So, so, wondrous… thank you for sharing your passion with us all! I love the basket star photo’s (well them all really)
The kelp is calling me…
It is my dear friend . . . I heard it!
Wow! Thank you for sharing and inspiring!
That’s an amazing slideshow 🙂 privaledged indeed! Loved the warbonnets.
I’ll send you the photos of you in the air from when I saw you, it’ll be neat to have for your records of the experience 🙂 I can even see you with your giant lens in the window.