Life...?: May 2006

Whale Watching

Gloucester

May 6, 2006

We began the whale watching tour run by Yankee Fleet from Gloucester at 2:30pm. Again, I underestimated the weather and it was freezing on the boat. About 45 minutes later, the boat took us all the way to the Northern Atlantic Ocean and it was the begin of my firts whale watching on the Ocean.

The first half an hour on the Ocean was not much fun. We saw a few whales about 50 feets away from our boat, very small from far. Couldn't take picture though, too small. When I almost give up, they started to swim towards our boat. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,... they came in group! Suddenly, I felt like we were in the marine park watching whales presentation. At the same time, a tans of baby dolphins joined the show! They looked like celebrating the whales gathering together with all of us on the boat.

从Gloucester出发，经过四十五分钟的航行，终于看见第一只鲸鱼。距离太远，以肉眼根本看不清楚，何况是我那照相机的功能并不怎么专业。半个小时后，我开始冻得半死，有点后悔付了41美元，才看那几只‘小鲸鱼’，很不划算。

就在这时，船上的人纷纷嚷了起来。有的向左边跑，有的向右边跑，个个兴奋得大喊。看，鲸鱼们都向我们这边游过来了！好大的一群鲸鱼啊！我也兴奋得抓紧相机不停地按下快门，尽量捕抓每一个片刻。

就在当时，阳光也从云端里探出头来和我们一起分享着难得的一刻。阳光照射在海面上，令整个画面显得更精彩撼人！但也因此，要在强烈的阳光下通过荧幕猎取景物变得特别困难，我只好关上荧幕，使用原始的反光镜照摄法。习惯了先进的技术，太久没有用反光镜，的确有点困难。但效果总算不错，可喜可贺！有没有像杂志里专业的相片？哈哈！