An ocean of whales... A minnows tale...

As my feet nimbly moved over the broken lava rock, I began to hear a sound echoing up the bay, an unmistakable sound, a pod talking to its calves.

I raced at this point, fearing I would miss them. A deep bellow reverberated as a bull sang out his song. A chill stiffened me as I feared my dog would dive in oblivious.

"Stop Buddha!" My dog halted.

In the cove immediately in front of me, six or seven calves were rolling, splashing and singing. Such joy! My skin tingled with goosebumps. The energy heightened as the spinner dolphins swam out past the calf pod.

Then, a great breach of the deep blue water as one cow cast an observant eye to the young. The waves broke intensely off her magnificent body and rippled up the cove. All around me, the sounds of them all singing and then... gone.

“That was a festival of life,” I told Buddha as he looked back at me with his attentive brown eyes. In return, he seemed to answer, “Our day is complete Daddy. Let's go home.”

The Last Sage