Please enjoy the picture.

[John Albert Evans]

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I am sure quite a lot of us have seen a whale breaching but here is a photograph for those who haven't, please enjoy.

John

[John Pruden]

john I have seen many a wondrous site but seeing them ranks near the very top thanks..jp

[Ivan Cloherty]

Nice picture JA, we who served at sea were blessed with many opportunities to see wonderous sights that will live forever in our memories, they are too numerous to mention, but include the racing dolphins, the jumping whales, the multi coloured flying fish, the green flash at sunset, the sun, moon and stars all out together, the heavens uninterrupted by artificial light from townships, the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, the seas in a hurricane, the density of a typhoon, the sight of a landfall that you have never been to before, sailing up rivers surrounded by dense jungle, the sounds of the jungle making you were glad you were aboard ship, the skill of uneducated stevedores dressed only in lion cloths handling logs weighing up to 20 tons plus, the surf breaking on a near shore, the welcome sight of a lighthouse after a sunless ocean crossing with no opportunity of a star or sun sight. I am sure that I have missed many that I have experienced but will at times have total recall. God we were so lucky and lastly I count myself luckier than some because I never saw Mary's wooden leg.

[Chris Allman]

I have been lucky enough to see that very happening off Montevideo John and enjoyed it immensely. I am very grateful that I was lucky to have seen it as one of the wonders ( as far as I am concerned ) of the world. Thank you for posting it.

[John Callon]

When we were on holiday in Hawaii we went whale watching off the island of Maui, and were treated to the most fantastic site of two whales breaching. I had seen it once before when I was at sea but only from a distance, but to be so close was something else.
Regards
John

[happy daze john in oz]

Ivan #3 there are many wonderous sights at sea, on our last cruise the number of dolphins was quite amazing.
As for Mary's wooden leg, you were lucky because at the time you were at sea it was riddled with woodworm.

[cappy]

aha ivan many seaman who had imbibed never saw marys wooden leg .....but wondered when sober how they got that splinter in there hand .....so perhaps who knows .....regards cappy

[John Arton]

Think I may have posted this before but once coming round the Southern tip of Madagascar , on the morning 4-8 watch, looking ahead it was like a scene from jules verne 25,000 leagues under the sea. The sea ahead was boiling and it looked like a giant fight between giant octopus was taking place. As we got nearer it turned out to be a large pod of hump back whales, together with hundreds of dolphins, engaged in a feeding frenzy. This went on for a number of hours with the whales breaching and the dolphins working in conjunction with the whales. A truly amazing sight.
rgds
JA

[Ivan Cloherty]

Well off on another sabbatical for a few days, family committments, no computers allowed, wonder what wonderous sights I'll see, got a seven hour drive in torrential rain, that's the trouble with living in Torquay it's a long way to anywhere!