from hawaii to alaska and back
i'm just sitting here watching pbs instead of doing homework (yeah, i enjoy pbs. big whoop. you wanna fight about it?) and there's something on with jean michael cousteua. so it's obviouslly about marine biology.
they're going around america's underwater treasures and i just saw something about sea turtles, and now they switched to humpback whales.
something really struck me as awemazing (a combination of awesome and amazing). hawaii is their breeding grounds. it's protected waters when they are there breeding. vessles aren't even allowed to approach the humpbacks in these waters surrounding hawaii.
these huge mammals (reaching up to 40 tons (80,000 pounds... that's as much as a fully loaded 53' cemi trailer WITH the cemi truck) breed and give birth in hawaiian waters.
after the breeding, they swim to alaska. they come back to hawaii the next year, have some babies, and swim back. they keep doing this year in and year out.
the narrator pointed out how the young humpbacks jump and play in the warm water around the american islands having just arrived from alaska where they gained strength.
i should think so! how awesome would it be to swim from hawaii to alaska and back for a routine exercise?!?
lucky!
this is the life of a whale. a life that has so obviously been designed. thank you, pbs, for delivering awemazing video right into my living room, further proving to me that my god is an artist who not only creates, but creates his own medium.
I LOVE IT! I see God in nature's design more than anywhere else. It's just so simple to see. All through my educational career, it's been drilled into me that it's all about evolution and Darwin, etc. The secular scientific world conveniently paints around God in the wonders of nature and animal behavior. They describe the things we can't understand as "missing links," but I know that it's just because God is so much bigger and wiser and has wired everything in the world to work in perfect syncopation (until we humans mess it up).
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JGanschow |
September 21, 2006 8:34 AM