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		<title>An Unforgetable Event&#8211;Whale Watching</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my unforgettable events &#8211; a whale watch off the coast of Cape Cod.  When you board a whale watching boat, the crew is quick to tell you that you don&#8217;t always get to see a whale. They just do their best to locate one. Not all that reassuring, so I wasn&#8217;t expecting much. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of my unforgettable events &#8211; a whale watch off the coast of Cape Cod.  When you board a whale watching boat, the crew is quick to tell you that you don&#8217;t always get to see a whale. They just do their best to locate one.</p>
<p>Not all that reassuring, so I wasn&#8217;t expecting much.</p>
<p>What I got was almost unbelievable&#8211;even for the crew!</p>
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<li>A rare sighting of two (not one) <strong>Right Whales.</strong> They were playing together. At the time, there were only an estimated 800 in the wild. They have been hunted almost to extinction.</li>
<li>Picture a school bus pushing itself  up and out of the ocean&#8211; front end first. That&#8217;s the only way I can describe what it&#8217;s like to see a <strong>Humpback Whale</strong> breach out of the water. The one I was lucky enough to see, stayed by the boat, waved with his fin several times and jumped completely out of the water landing again and again with a huge splash. Glorious! Wonderful!</li>
<li>As if that weren&#8217;t enough, on the way back to port, over a hundred <strong>Dolphins </strong>swam around and under the boat. Did you know dolphins appear to be green when you look down on them from above the water?</li>
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<p>I&#8217;ve  had a few unforgettable events in my life&#8211;mental pictures that I cherish. This is one I recall often. I&#8217;ll never forget it.</p>
<p>Do you have any?</p>
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