I tentatively reached up and laid my hand on the huge sea creature. It seemed neither hot nor cold to my touch. Our bodies in a kind of temperature equilibrium.
“It is a mammal after all.” I thought. “Just a really big one!”
Before me lay the largest denizen of the deep I had ever seen. A giant whale, now stranded in a foot of water and fighting for its life.
As my hand remained there for a few seconds the whale released a breath from its blowhole making me jump and I felt the vibration go all through me. I was touching another mammal, but one so magnificent, so wonderous, it felt a sacred moment.
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You all seemed to warm to the idea that in doing a (free) subscription newsletter, I would like to largely try and avoid 'social media'. I feel it is slowly killing the enjoyment of viewing images. I for one don't remember a single image that I have viewed on Instagram in the past week! Looking at an image an inch or two square on my phone does neither the photographer nor the image justice.
