Thar She Blows!

This morning I sat atop a coastal bluff in Solana Beach observing the JC Baldwin crew reconstructing the slope above the seawall my employers had designed.  As I looked to the horizon, watching the dark clouds threatening rain in our direction, I had to blink my eyes and stare again as something white faded from my vision.  There it was again, just past the kelp beds, northwest of Tide Park, and this time I was sure of what I saw.  Off in the distance two distinct water spouts sprayed in the air, three to four feet above the water.  WHALES!!  I got so excited I stopped the guys from working and had them watch the horizon with me.  There they were again...five times we watched to spouts appear side by side as the whales cruised southward along the kelp beds and then they were gone, or so I thought.  As the sun broke through the clouds behind me to the east and the dark clouds dumped rain in the distance to the northwest, a rainbow grew from where the whales were, arching over the surfers at the cre

sting waves, reaching toward the coastline.  While I sat there reflecting upon the beauty of mother nature that I had just experienced in so many different facets, I spotted the whale spouts again just to the south in the next bed of kelp.  This time I could see the arch of their heads as they breached the surface of the water.  They exhaled only a few more times and then disappeared again.  (And where was my camera?!  At the top of the bluff, when I was at the bottom...ugh!)  As I basqued in the pleasure of what I had witnessed, the lobstermen drew up their pots and placed them again.  A flock of commorants skirted the water just past the boat on their way north to some unknown destination.  One boat sailed away and another came along and I continued to watch the ocean.  Just to my north the surfers sat patiently in the water waiting for that perfect wave, but mother nature was not done with showing me her beauty.  A pod of dolphins played in the surf between me and the surfers in the turquoise water reflecting the sun that broke through the clouds.

It is moments like these that no matter how you may be struggling with what life has dealt you at the time, you realize LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL AND WELL WORTH LIVING!!