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I Had a Whale of a Time Semih Deliveli from Turkey Semih Deliveli from Turkey will never forget seeing whales up close on a whale watch in the North Atlantic Ocean. Photo: Thomas Peters The guide also said you can easily recognize a whale by its tail because every whale has a different kind of tail just like people have different fingerprints.   We know only a little about our world. Sometimes we see things that we don't understand, and sometimes we don't even try to understand. One of the things that we are trying to know more about are the whales. Because of my curiosity, I've had my most exciting weekend. I took a trip to Gloucester to see some of the world's most beautiful, exciting, and fascinating animals in their own habitat, the North Atlantic Ocean. After a long trip by bus, we got on the ship called the "Privateer". On our way to see the whales on that beautiful sunny day, I grew more and more excited. After a while, we stopped and everyone on the ship started to shout because we saw a humpback whale. It was wonderful. Photo: Thomas Peters Sometimes, whales came so close to the ship that you thought you could easily touch them. While we were watching the whales, a guide was giving us some information about them. She told us that we saw only two kinds of whales—50-foot humpback whales (singing whales) and 70-foot fin back whales (the second largest whale on earth). She also said you can easily recognize a whale by its tail because every whale has a different kind of tail just like people have different fingerprints. They all have names, and on this trip, we saw "Salt" and "Pepper", two whales named by a biologist and a fisherman. They were swimming together all the time. Sometimes, whales came so close to the ship that you thought you could easily touch them. I took twenty-seven photos, but it was very hard because they were quick and stayed on the surface of the ocean just for a short time. It was really something. It was one of the chances that a person hardly ever has in life, and I had that chance. More unforgettable experiences: Hallucination on the High Seas | Reaching the Top of the Mountain The Fall of the Berlin Wall Return to: Unforgettable Experiences | Issue 9 | Home Page TOPICS Online Magazine - ©1997-2007 - Sandy and Thomas Peters - topics mag@gmail.com