Whales

Toodle-oo! Four mutts drove our group to the Mirissa pier. Today, we are going to visit the giant of the sea - the whale.

To introduce, the tuk-tuk is the most common means of transportation in Sri Lanka. It has three wheels and can accommodate three adults in the back seat. Its engine is at the back of the vehicle, and it drives with a toot, hence the name "Tuk Tuk", which is more modern. Uncle Tutu turned off the engine and spoke in a strange local language for most of the day, and then pointed with his hand. It turns out that today we are going to take this boat! Our whale-watching ship is not small and has two levels. The pilot house is in the middle of the plywood on the second floor. There is a special little room on the first floor. In the room hangs a golden cylinder with a long rope that connects him to the ship. Haha, you know it without saying it, this is specially used to search for blue whales. The whale-watching boats all set out collectively, and once one boat has spotted a whale, it will summon other whale-watching boats to come and watch. Because there are only a few hundred meters between the boats, it is also very safe, and if one boat has an accident, the other boats will come to the rescue within five minutes.

Without further ado, the captain pressed the button and the engine roared, seemingly announcing that the whale-watching trip had officially begun! The waves in the harbor today were relatively large, and even the big whale-watching boat shook twice and trembled three times. At one point, the boat fell to the left, and all the people and luggage slid down as if they were about to go into the sea. The screams were so loud that it was quite scary.

People suffered a lot during the whale-watching trip. As the boat kept bumping, the young couple opposite me, from the boat out of the port, to the discovery of whales, they have been vomiting, you vomit after I vomit, I vomit after you vomit. Luckily, the sea breeze helped to dissipate the stench. The staff probably knew we would vomit, so they prepared dozens of plastic bags to cope with the vomit.

Finally, we arrived at the whale-watching spot, where many whale-watching boats had already gathered. One of them was the "Rong Gong Zi", which was written in Chinese, and it impressed me a lot. Suddenly, a brand-new whale-watching boat spewed normal white smoke and radioed out that there was a small blue whale calf ahead on the left. I don't know why this baby blue whale was not accompanied by its mother, maybe it came out to play by itself. The baby blue whale spouted a jet of water with a puff, it was playing happily! Suddenly, it spotted us and looked at the tall whale-watching boats and was a little scared, so it cocked up a tender tooth-like tail and disappeared with a swoop. With the help of sonar, the whale-watching boats turned on all their horsepower and went after the little blue whale. People on board stretched their necks and raised their cameras. They risked falling off to take a picture of the whale. The little blue whale turned around again and exposed its black back to the surface, and the whale-watching boat went after it again. But the whale-watching boat was no match for the little blue whale. Gradually, it was left behind.

The little blue whale gradually faded out of sight and was replaced by three dolphins walking side by side. The dolphins were lively and cheerful, not afraid of people. They jumped up with their pointed mouths facing upwards and plunged into the sea with a swoop. A few passengers with quick hands, who had long forgotten the pain of vomiting, recorded this wonderful footage.

Although the whale watching season is from November to April, we still saw the giant of the sea! (It was fate). We also wish that the big sea giant breeds more offspring!