I suppose garrulous Captain Bob of the Adventure Hornblower whale watching cruise finds a way to say "this is shaping up to be one of the best days so far this year!" each New Year's, but it was certainly apt today. The volunteers from the Natural History Museum claimed to have seen twenty-two grey whales in all, something of a record for any day.
To borrow some words from the new year's wish of my Berliner cousin A (who probably had a slightly different kind of friendly moisture in mind than these cetacean scenes): feuchtfreundlicher Rutsch ins neue Jahr!
