Whale Tale: Conversation with Whales

When the yacht begins the smooth motion from a coast and the island starts easy leave with high-speed, winds of freedom wake up in the hair and your smile crawl not less than to ears.

So, I found out that to know island it doesn't complete to arrive and live on the island one year. To comprehend island you need to see it from the seaside. For note it was my first way out to the sea and I got inexpressible impressions.

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The purpose of the sailing was to watch whales, which swim along all west coast of Dominica and whale watching season never stops. The midday is the best time to go out for searching and after reaching the sufficient distance from island to keep eyes open.

That doesn't torment the eyes peering at the sparkled blue surface and find the trace of these small creatures faster - we dropped a long wire-cable in the deep of the Caribbean waters to listen whale's sounds. At first we was lucky for the quiet and gurgle of waves.

Captain changed a place and we heard characteristic flicks and breathing no less than four whales. But nobody was to wait when they will ready to come up for breath an air - at some distance we saw another whale, which was shedding fountains of water, and we tore to have time before the criminal didn't go to the bottom.

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It was a little whale around five meters. It rocked slightly: now showed up a head and shed fountains of water with funny snort voice, now showed up the dorsal fin and lower part of trunk. It seems that body of a whale was broken on two parts and the dorsal fin is the point of balance, which rise up and fall down them.

So, whale was rocked about three minutes, and I was indignant and said to the whale's baby: - Well, little fish, now show to us your beautiful tail. As if it's waited for my words in this time the obedient little fish did the large amplitude of a swinging, rose up a graceful tail and went out perpendicularly to the deep.

Everybody at the yacht was indignation of such action without theirs sanction. Only I was laughing, because knew now, that location whales understand people's language, Russian to be exact. Be proud, comrades. :)

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Soon at the some distance, one whale was noticed and the heat began to play into blood – it was whale hunting, but our armament consisting of digital cameras. We rushed off at a furious pace to catch luck there.

This whale was twice as much, snorted more sonorous and shed larger fountains, but swinging in same funny way. On the whole, this whale had a character: when he felt that somebody watched him and took photos of him, the whale gathered speed and sailed away. But nobody can go away from us on the surface and poor whale rose up his tail from water, wagged it like a farewell and went to the deep.

Then we caught up two whales: mother and sun. I can't tell you what size was the whale's mother – she was so big. I feared for her sun, because they almost touch each other when danced in the water and recurring snorted. This group also wagged of theirs tails (mother was so great to do it) and it was clear now that whales have the same manners. Wagged of theirs tails on the farewell – it's a true whale's confession. Everyone have a special style: “Let me show how beautiful my tail, how slow and graceful when I go to the deep!” or “Hey! I already gone and you never caught me again!”

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Darted off from one place to fly swift to another place, we was sailing from one group of whales to another, but I was bewitched about another.

In time, when yacht began to get a high speed and the fresh wind started to bind your hair to something incredible, you reclined on the side, brandished the right heel close to the selvedge of water and drank juice; your eyes looked to the paradise picture of the life space of water and above it, in the distance, raised up your gorgeous beautiful island with nine volcanoes, and white tender clouds touched their dark tops… At that time you comprehend that you live to be free… You realize that life is fairy tale… And you are happy man, because you did let that treasure go through you.

It's a happy for yourself to be Columbus. I can understand why this man was bear somewhere and for something. Crossroads of Sea and Ocean, Island and Sky is make the world is magical, simple and clear.

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Also from seaside I get utmost clear that everything is so small here and close! It was a nice weather without clouds (except the above mountains, where clouds always like to collect for chatters) and I saw by both side of the Dominica at one time two islands: Martinique to the south and Guadeloupe to the north.

The small islands hold each other, and nothing around… only continuous space of waved blue element, where is possible to watch wavy vanished rays and to catch emerald image of mermaids.

Freedom…

P.S.: Took a glance to the Roseau from seaside. It's so little toy-town between Mediterraneans green mountains. And other settlements scattered on the steep shores and little homes stands on the mysterious hills reminds about hobbits or Alice in Wonderland.