Whale tale

Overheard recently at about 30 fathoms deep off the coast at Laguna Beach:

Whale mom: "Billy, where have you been? You're late!"

Billy: "I went on a people watching swim with Tara and Josh -- we had to go far."

Whale mom: "See any?"

Billy: "Oh yeah, there was one of those boats with two hulls, bunch of people, too, it was neat!"

Whale mom: "Any big ones?"

Billy: "Yeah, couple, wow! We spotted three babies, too!"

Whale mom: "What did they look like?"

Billy: "Couldn't really see their faces, they were all wearing hats or those dark circles over their eyes, and most of them were holding those shiny things up in front of their faces every time they spotted me, and then right away the whole boat got real noisy, you know, those propeller things, and it just moved off fast and disappeared."

Whale mom: "Well, maybe you'll see more next time...."