2009 turned out to be The Year of the Whale. In March, for the first time I listened to whales singing underwater while I dove. I watched them spouting, and breaching, and diving quite a bit during boat rides in March and December. Last year I went to Point Reyes for the first time where they have whale bones displayed.
And, in November I visited the Long Marine Lab in Santa Cruz where they have the skeletons of two whales displayed.
At the Long Marine Lab, I learned that whales have hind limb girdle remnants and pelvic remnants
And, we all know they have huge skulls
To end The Year of the Whale, I listened to humpback whales singing on 7 out of 8 SCUBA dives.
Here are some pics of a tail of a whale I might have been listening to on the dives
The humpback in these two photos barely lifted its tail out of the water
