Shamu

During our Thanksgiving trip to Flordia we made our way to Sea World and of course if you go to Sea World you must see the Shamu show. Or so I thought. I remember when the Shamu show used to be about education and having a little kid feed the whale. This is not what we found. Instead we found a choreographed musical where the whales had a supporting role. The trainers had some good monologues about how the two species yerned to come together to share cultures. Personally I think that they just like the fish the trainers feed them. Also the kid who would normally feed the whale got a free five dollar whale tail mediallion and didn't even interact with the whales. Lastly I learned a killer whale dance that the crowd participated in. Overall the show went from being cute and informative to just plain laughable.

While we were sitting out on the beach in Flordia we noticed a school of dolphins swimming within a couple hundred feet of the shoreline. We really enjoyed seeing them in their natural habitat. They seemed very playful and free. Upon attempting to communicate with the whales using the dance we learned at Sea World we were horribly unsucessful. If only we had some fish.

Then a couple days later I read about and incident in the San Diego Sea World where one of the killer whales attacked it's trainer. It pulled the trainer underwater for several minutes at a time. I suppose that the killer whale was just trying to share its culture with us. More likely the trainer didn't give it enough fish. If only he had given it more fish.