Whale Watching

[FoxyLaydee]

Tone, have you tried cage shark-diving?

[vashti]

I thought they were outlawing shark tourism??

[Junket]

Tone and RoseB are back?

What the hell is going on??

[Gigabitch]

Tony, I knew you were going to be in SD at the same time as me, so I kept an eye out for you. I thought it would be beyond amazing to be on the same boat, but I didn't see you. If we were on the same boat and I missed meeting you, I'm gonna kick myself.

Our boat also left at ten and ended up coming in a couple of hours late- I can't remember what it was called, though. I was there with my boyfriend, his dad and my daughter.

[Tone]

Tone, have you tried cage shark-diving?

I have not but I would love to. Is it somethin you've done?

Wow Giga... we really might have been on the same boat. We left @ 10 and it was suppose to be 5 and a half hour tour but it ended up being around 7 because of all the wildlife we got to see.

Was the tour guide/captain an older guy? And when you first got to the Coronado Islands we detoured a bit because they spotted whales?

50 passengers - I was on the top the whole time.

[FoxyLaydee]

I thought they were outlawing shark tourism??

Not in SA - I don't think so. Just went there last Aug.

I have not but I would love to. Is it somethin you've done?

You should! It's amazing and nerve-wrecking at the same time (for me anyway!)! Don't worry.. you'll be in a cage..

[vashti]

Not in SA - I don't think so. Just went there last Aug.

What is "SA"?

Anyway, it's illegal in Florida and Hawaii. Environmentalists are working toward making it illegal everywhere.

[FoxyLaydee]

What is "SA"?

South Africa.

[1averagejoe]

I thought they were outlawing shark tourism??

May i ask why? I didn't know people were trying to outlaw it...I've always thought that would be kind of cool to try.

[vashti]

May i ask why? I didn't know people were trying to outlaw it...I've always thought that would be kind of cool to try.

It is associated with an increase in shark attacks, and I don't think it is good for the sharks, either. I didn't read the whole article, but here you go.

[url]http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/06/60minutes/main1099368_page3.shtml[/url]

[url]http://www.cdnn.info/news/eco/e050615.html[/url]

[Gigabitch]

Announcement: I was on the same whale watch boat as Tone and didn't even meet him. I am officially a dork.

[misombra]

i'm jealous.

[Tone]

Announcement: I was on the same whale watch boat as Tone and didn't even meet him. I am officially a dork.

WHAT!

I cannot believe that!!

You must have been downstairs huh? On the way back home we saw a pair of juvenile whales just a mile off the coast?

That is just wild. I bet most my photos look pretty familiar to you, huh? LoL