Heard so many stories and saw pics of friends who actually saw whales so up-close right here in Santa Cruz that I decided I’d try to take the kids after work one day. As bad luck would have it, there were NO WHALES that day …a volunteer for the Marine Discovery Center told us, and he’d been watching for them all day, so we knew it to be true!
As you can see, though, all was not lost. It’s an understatement to say Cameron likes being outside. She LOVES the beach …. Dylan does, too, but he couldn’t hide his disappointment that we were on West Cliff and not at Harbor Beach!
Cameron was all psyched up about looking for whales: “we’re looking for whales,” she’d sing-song as she galloped along the way! I was so sad we didn’t see any!
We are still so lucky to live in such a beautiful place. Cameron was so upset that we had to leave!
And Dylan just kept suggesting we head to Harbor Beach instead! But, clearly, nobody was unhappy about seeing the ocean at this time of the day!
Maybe next time, we’ll make it to the beach in time to see the whales….
