Whale, I'm not TOO LATE!!

WOOOO HOOOOO!!! We didn't MISS IT!! I thought we had for sure... When I was a kid, we used to visit a place here in Oregon, called Bandon. There's a lighthouse there, on the mouth of the Coquille River, and a jetty. I think the jetty isn't as safe as it used to be for walking on, but when I was little, we would walk on it, and have fun exploring. One year, when I was probably about 10-12, we were camping in a nearby state park. We went out on that jetty, and while we were out there, noticed a GREY WHALE and her CALF swimming in the river's mouth!! The whale and her calf were SO CLOSE, it was just breath taking. Something I will NEVER forget.
There happen to be at least two, I think more whale watching areas along the coast line near to us. One of them has a sheltered building for bad weather watching. There are two times every year for good whale spotting, and one of them is in the spring. The first year we moved here, we moved here just a tad too late for the spring run. Last year, I thought about it too late AGAIN, and this year, I was SURE I had missed it all over... BUT I checked on line today.... and it's NOT TOO LATE!! In fact, I checked JUST in time!! So sometime between this weekend, and the end of the month, I will be taking my kids to the lookout. Cross your fingers, I hope they get to spot a whale...

© Rachel Whetzel