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Just about close enough to get eaten...

So I went to Long Beach for an after-work surf today... and caught a super awesome left that went on forever. Then I sat and waited a long while for the next one... and then, I noticed two whale watching boats... they were close enough for me to see whose boats they were... I could probably count exactly how many people were on Wasco (which is super easy to recognize because it's this huge aluminum thing with a huge orange section)... but I couldn't see what they were looking at. I looked at them for a while and kept doing my thing. For a while it looked like they were looking at me, but while I could sometimes be mistaken for a bearded man, I would be really offended if someone mistook me for a whale, even if I happen to be really far away.

When I got back to the parking lot, a friend came up to me and told me that he saw me catch the super awesome left that went on forever... it was a really cool ride even if no one had seen it... but it's just that much cooler that someone did... and better yet, it's someone who knows me and could recognize me in the surf, and who once gave me a surf lesson. Then he said "So... you saw the whale!" And I said "What whale?"... "The orcas that were right in front of you!"... "What orcas? In front of me? When?"... "You didn't see them???"... "Uh... no."... "They were *right* in front of you, breaching and everything!"... "Right in front of me how?"... "You were there, the orcas were there... they were right in front of you and coming right up out of the water!"... "Really?"... "yeah!"... "Oh..." (well, what could you say to that?)

I have yet to see an orca... and I have had so many guests this year telling me they saw orcas...

On the other hand, it's not like I got out whale watching...

Or that I'd notice one breach right in front of me as I sit on a surfboard...