From a 1971 whale watching trip to Baja.

Super sausages
Basking on San Benito
Elephant seals sleep.

Bull at harem's edge
See alpha bull drop his guard -
Maiden in distress!

"Growl, growl on," I laugh
"You're too fat to move at all"
Roly-poly pup.

Little fluffy birds
Staggering across the deck
Kamikaze auklets.

Curious cigar
Shooting up from the Lagoon
Spyhopping gray whale.

Huge hump and small one
Undulating together
Whale mother and calf.

Up, up, up, and CRASH
A breeching gray whale leaps and
Down, down, down, and SPLASH.