2013 Day 3-Whale Watchin’

Hello guys, here are your favorite MCs Wiley and Luke here (Wiley starting off). So here is the story hot from the pressing machine for today.

We figured that we should start the day off with waking up at 6:00 in the morning. We ate some cereal with raspberries and blue berries (what a healthy breakfast!) After breakfast, the boys and three adults went down to the pier that is connected to the campsite, and we threw in our plankton net that we made yesterday. We stayed there for ten minutes collecting water from the sea. Then we headed towards the science lab to look at our sample that we collected. We met Jake who gave us a tour of the labs (and what he does as a federal agent in Washington State) and gave us a history lesson about the land. After that, we looked at our samples from the plankton net. There were so many things in the water that you couldn’t even see! There were Anthropoids, Medusas, and many other things.

After that we went back to camp to repack our bags and change into warmer clothing for our whale watching tour. But before we could begin our tour, we headed down to do a service project.

For the service project we cleared weeds from the many gardens at the Olympic music festival. There is a funny story about organic farming but to cut to the chase, when a farmer asks you if you want gloves, you better say yes! Then we had a healthy lunch consisting of sandwiches, Doritos, Rice Krispy Treats, and fresh raspberries from the farm. Then a few of our most musically talented scouts preformed a piano solo at the barn (right by the farm) and it was fantastic.

Then we loaded into the van for the drive to Port Townsend for whale watching. The ride to Port Townsend was very loud (due to a few of our scouts being more “energetic”). We arrived at Port Townsend an hour early, so we hung around the pier and looked at the ocean. Our boat, The Olympas, finally arrived and we boarded her. The captain then explained that the earlier group didn’t see any whales because the fog was too thick. And then she told us some good news; that we might see a rare Super Pod (which is the three pod groups being together in one huge area). We then took off and we went through the Strait of Wandafuka (it is a real place) and we went north towards Canadian waters. We traveled through the ocean for about an hour and then we saw our first sign of the whales. At first, you could only see their tails, but then their heads popped up. The captain told us that these were Orca whales (also known as Killer whales). We watched them slap their tails, and come out of the water. There was one whale that was 10-15 feet close to the boat, but then it turned and popped out at the back of the boat. After that, we began to make our voyage home. Before we got back to shore, we saw two Baleen whales (which are filter-feeding whales).

Then we returned to the pier and drove back to camp. We are now preparing dinner and readying our Skits. Until next time folks, this is Wiley and Luke signing off.