And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, September 7, 2018
Hundreds of dolphins race along Monterey Bay in 'superpod'
We were making a movie, and our location was the edge of the Palos Verde Peninsula, the promontory that juts out towards Catalina Island, south of Los Angeles and just west of San Pedro Harbor.
We saw, stretching along what had to be 2-3 miles long and a mile deep towards the horizon, thousands and thousands of porpoises (porpoisii?), apparently driving what had to be the motherlode of food-fish before them, while tens of thousands of seagulls wheeled above, swooping down to snag the occasional easy pickings from this movable feast.
They were headed up the channel from south to north, and it took them a good twenty minutes to pass by. Simply incredible to watch from a grandstand seat.
I wouldn't have imagined there were that many of them in one place in the same ocean, but they churned onwards just like the video, and orders of magnitude more numerous.
It was simply an amazing thing to behold, and sadly, long before phone-cams or drones.
Overhead drone GoPro footage of it would have been worth a fortune to NatGeo &c. Instead, most of the crew just stopped what we were doing to marvel at it for real.
Unless we start paying a massive weather tax NOW, they'll be dead in two years because of global warming.
ReplyDeleteDon't give Moonbeam any ideas.
DeleteWatched a pod like that off of La Jolla...kool.
ReplyDeleteThey were riding the bow wave.
That was a mini-pod.
ReplyDeleteWe were making a movie, and our location was the edge of the Palos Verde Peninsula, the promontory that juts out towards Catalina Island, south of Los Angeles and just west of San Pedro Harbor.
We saw, stretching along what had to be 2-3 miles long and a mile deep towards the horizon, thousands and thousands of porpoises (porpoisii?), apparently driving what had to be the motherlode of food-fish before them, while tens of thousands of seagulls wheeled above, swooping down to snag the occasional easy pickings from this movable feast.
They were headed up the channel from south to north, and it took them a good twenty minutes to pass by. Simply incredible to watch from a grandstand seat.
I wouldn't have imagined there were that many of them in one place in the same ocean, but they churned onwards just like the video, and orders of magnitude more numerous.
It was simply an amazing thing to behold, and sadly, long before phone-cams or drones.
Overhead drone GoPro footage of it would have been worth a fortune to NatGeo &c.
Instead, most of the crew just stopped what we were doing to marvel at it for real.
Thanks for the clip.