I am fairly sick of this topic, as most of us are.

I was on the Victoria Clipper on Saturday having a casual conversation with a family that was vacationing. They were telling me about their Whale Watching trip from a couple days previous. The lady began telling me about how they had spotted the whales from roughly 500-600 yards way and were disappointed that they were so far away and slowly getting further away from their boat. While the captain of their boat was telling them about the orcas and their travel patterns, they noticed that the whales began to change their route a bit and started heading towards the Whale Watching boat. The family was telling me how amazed they were at how fast the whale pods were within 50 yards of their boat.

They said, "one second they were off in the distance then all of a sudden they were right at our boat. They were amazingly curious."

So, a family that has no idea about an of this orca BS, shares a story with me about the orcas curiousity and how fast they can close in on a boat, but we are supposed to be able to keep a 400 yard distance or get a $10,000 fine, and believe that they are stressed and not curious about our vessels?

It's all horse$hit and I am fairly burned out on it.

Good luck at the meeting tomorrow. I think I will work on my emo skin carvings instead.