Chris returned from Hawaii last night. Anne heard him come in, but I was already asleep. He had a good time, took lots of nice pictures and as of writing has been up for more than twenty-four hours. When he does go down, he will go down hard. Unfortunately, his car has an unusual problem. Its car alarm keeps triggering. We finally silenced it, by disconnecting the battery, but upon our return from dinner, he reconnected it. I hope that after he crashes and it will be a hard landing that the alarm does not reactivate and because he is out cold, it will be up to me to kill it again. He plans on taking it to the dealer tomorrow.
While he was supposed to be napping, Anne and I went to Point Lobos. It was a beautiful day, sunny, warm and with little wind. Consequently, the park was crowded. We had to park out on the highway and hoof it in. I got 10K steps. Today, we were rewarded with whale sightings. Gray whales I was told, up from the Sea of Cortez with their newborn calves, headed to Alaska to summer. They were too far away for photos, but you could see them with the naked eye and better with binoculars. They would breech and spout and sometimes show their flukes. Sometimes there would be a pair of spouts, which we took as mother and calf. There was a motorboat leading this parade. A couple of whales were not far behind, in drafting position. They went on, but another group hung around and must have been feeding about a mile offshore, right in front of us. They stayed there for half-an-hour, before moving north.
