Dolphins Talking
Aug. 31st, 2024 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lb_leeWe got the opportunity to go to Hawaii for a friend's wedding recently. Unfortunately, the timing was truly, truly bad brain-wise, so we rarely left the vicinity of the hotel (sad side effect of braincrash: we get lost extremely easily and should not wander), but we did take a nice bracing walk every dawn (we didn't even try to reset our body clock, not worth it), got to see the sun rise damn near every day, ate a lot of good food, and saw a rainbow. (Biff snapped a photo of it. He took many photos. He's the group shutterbug.)
The coolest part though was a snorkeling trip we went with our friend. (We bought a mask and snorkel for the occasion. ...I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with it.) Biff, we learned, cannot swim and was wigged out even with the life jacket. (Mori: "It's FINE, dudema, we couldn't sink even if we WANTED to!") Rawlin, conversely, chilled the fuck out in the water the way he never does around people. And we all got lucky, because the sea life came out to say hi! There were giant green turtles! They were so old! They had barnacles on them! They were like two and a half feet long!
And there were dolphins, corkscrewing and flipping through the water around us. At one point, they got close enough that we could hear them talking through the water.
That was the part that was most amazing. We were hearing a language no human understood or could reproduce, in real time, and the beings making it were right there. What were they saying? What were they thinking? Were they talking to each other about us humans? Were they trying to talk to us humans??? They were loud! I rarely hear ANYTHING in water, so being able to hear dolphins talking was just... indescribable. Somehow, that was even cooler than SEEING them. Something about the surreal feeling of crystal clear clicking in our ear, instead of just mushy sploosh woosh sounds, made the experience more real.
I regret that the intense brainload meant we didn't get to do very much; I doubt we'll ever get to go to Hawaii again. But that's okay. What matters is, we got through the whole intense trip without a meltdown or dropping any balls. (Or getting lost on Oahu.)
The coolest part though was a snorkeling trip we went with our friend. (We bought a mask and snorkel for the occasion. ...I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with it.) Biff, we learned, cannot swim and was wigged out even with the life jacket. (Mori: "It's FINE, dudema, we couldn't sink even if we WANTED to!") Rawlin, conversely, chilled the fuck out in the water the way he never does around people. And we all got lucky, because the sea life came out to say hi! There were giant green turtles! They were so old! They had barnacles on them! They were like two and a half feet long!
And there were dolphins, corkscrewing and flipping through the water around us. At one point, they got close enough that we could hear them talking through the water.
That was the part that was most amazing. We were hearing a language no human understood or could reproduce, in real time, and the beings making it were right there. What were they saying? What were they thinking? Were they talking to each other about us humans? Were they trying to talk to us humans??? They were loud! I rarely hear ANYTHING in water, so being able to hear dolphins talking was just... indescribable. Somehow, that was even cooler than SEEING them. Something about the surreal feeling of crystal clear clicking in our ear, instead of just mushy sploosh woosh sounds, made the experience more real.
I regret that the intense brainload meant we didn't get to do very much; I doubt we'll ever get to go to Hawaii again. But that's okay. What matters is, we got through the whole intense trip without a meltdown or dropping any balls. (Or getting lost on Oahu.)
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Date: 2024-09-01 03:33 am (UTC)This is really awesome - I wonder what it is about the noises they make that you can hear so very clearly.
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Date: 2024-09-01 07:02 am (UTC)That is AMAZING! I'm so glad you had these good experiences!
Use the snorkel gear and tight fitting clothes to dress up as a diver for Hallowwween.
ooo neat!
Date: 2024-09-01 01:28 pm (UTC)very glad y'all managed to get basically the best that was do-able out of it, and snorkling through animals wandering over to check y'all out (AND TALKING ABOUT IT) is pretty friggin nifty!! <3 <3
-kc
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Date: 2024-09-01 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-09-01 03:12 pm (UTC)Re: ooo neat!
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Date: 2024-09-01 06:11 pm (UTC)OH YES DO IT AND COME BACK AND WRITE ABOUT IT have a GRAND time and take a pry stick and net bag (if you are allowed)
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Date: 2024-09-01 06:28 pm (UTC)Have you gone snorkeling around here? Got any recs?
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Date: 2024-09-01 07:09 pm (UTC)Alas I have not gone snorkeling but it sounds so awesome and I know the cold MA waters have many interesting and edible things clinging to the rocks.
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Date: 2024-09-04 09:19 pm (UTC)We still remembered how to keep our mask from fogging up and how to blow-hole out the snorkel water like a whale! :B
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Date: 2024-09-04 09:19 pm (UTC)