A LESSON LEARNT

Today i learnt a very valuable lesson ..... never ever go on a boat journey. here is the story.

Inkpot and myself jumped energically out of bed this morning with the hope in our hearts that today we would go out on the whale watch board and see all the sperm whales that could be seen. We galloped down our brekkie and prepared ourselves for this momentus moment. We drive excitedly to the centre and paid over our money eagerly. We had a 30 minute wait so we purursed the shop. They had magic plastic sea animals that grew 600 times their size once placed in water. We saw some possum fur items. ( :( poor possums). After mooching around for 10 or so minutes we were pooped and decided to wait in the waiting area. Eventually we were briefed and told that there was a 1 metre swell. (i forgot to mention earlier that when we purhased out ticket we noticed that there was a sea sickness warning which i readily scoffed at).
( we purchased sea sickness tablets from the shop and swallowed them. The lady at the counter said that she got great reports about them. After a few minutes i felt a bit unwell but thought that it would pass). We all bundled into the bus and off we went to the boat. I joked to Inkpot that we would have to jump onto the boat and that the average hitting the boat first time was probably 70%. Inkpot put on a brave face but later i found out that she was slightly nervous that there would be no bridge onto the boat. anyway as we drove down to the boat, we were advised that sitting in the back would be more advisable if you suffered from motion sickness. I was confident in my tablet and my excellent sea legs and didnt really worry about where we would sit... as it turned out we got the last two sits on the boat. We have to wrestle with passengers who thought that their rucksacks deserved sits. The boat started to move out and i was listening to the guide.. as we moved further out the journey started to get rougher and rougher.By the time we reached our first whale i was in bits... all i wanted to do was go home and lie down. But that wasnt to be. The captain was hunting whales for us to view and he wasnt going home until he found them. At one stage one of the guides advised me to get fresh air..... no a good idea.....anyway i missed all the action and photos. We also say a pod of dolphins ( about 100 of them) they were amazing jumping out of the water but i could only peek at them briefly.


Tomorrow i kayak with the seals. XXXX