Rainbow Watching

I went whale watching today. Unfortunately the only animals I saw were a bunch of flying fish and a sea turtle. Seeing a sea turtle for the first time in my life was pretty cool, I’m just not sure it was worth $75. Although I kinda want one in my bathtub now. The flying fish reminded me of horseflies. Anyway, I think the trip should have been called a “leisurely trip around the Dominica” rather than whale watching… therefore no one would have been disappointed because it really was cool and seeing a whale could have exceeded expectations. 95% chance of a sighting whatever.

Supposedly, there are tons of whales in the Caribbean Sea, as the posters photos below indicate. I was told there are these certain types of plankton for the vegetarian whales and certain types of calamari (although I’ve never seen fried calamari on a menu here) for the carnivore whales, with a mix of the caribbean calm waters, and the perfect depth of the sea that make it a perfect home for all these tropical whales. The place where we left from actually had the top 7 sighted whales and had named them all according to their tale variations; it was all really cute during the 45 minute lecture about all this before we left. I was so excited I didn’t pay perfect attention. However- some interesting whale factoids that I picked up are that sperm whales can live up to 90 years old, baby sperm whales weigh ONE TON at birth and drink 5 gallons of milk a day, and then they started actually talking about how they got their name and I got freaked me out and completely stopped paying attention.

Sorry if that all sounds negative because in fact I had a wonderful time, due to seeing the most amazing rainbow of my life the whole entire time we were out. 5 hours of what started kinda like the blur of a prism, rising from the tops of the mountains all the way into the clouds. Then as we went along it changed into a bold, sharp, vibrant rainbow- like the quality of a cartoon clip art from a box of Lucky Charms. Later in the day it turned into a double rainbow (have you seen the double rainbow YouTube? Hilarious!!!) Our boat went up the entire west/Caribbean side of Dominica and upon turning around to come home, we watched the rainbow coming out of the land exactly across from where the boat was. Imagine a crowd of people on a boat (most from England, a few from the Caribbean, and me from the US) all cheering and laughing when we would watch a car would drive through the bottom of the rainbow. It was really one of the funniest things I’ve even seen! Oh, wait, next to this…"Double Complete Rainbow" (Momma- Its so funny! Watch the entire thing!) I asked the British family if they had seen the YouTube clip and they looked at me as if I suggested they watch Jersey Shore. 5 days. 

For Jonathan- see, lots of whales!

Did not actually see any of these... should have noticed the poster was made in 1975. 

Can you see it here?  What a beautiful island!

Got it.. perfect!