Whales With Feet?

Okay, so maybe I am unenlightened and maybe my world is indeed very small, very narrow and very concentrated; maybe it’s just me who was blown away and everyone else who got to see this life like whale from 49 million years ago, thought nothing of it!  Well, I am here to tell you folks that it sure blew me away as I precariously asked the museum attendants in Bar Habor, Maine if it was okay for me to take photographs & was given the go ahead.

Sadly, I had my telephoto lens on my camera and couldn’t get the whole whale in one shot, so was reduced to taking a “head” shot and then a “tail” shot.  First just to let you know the little guy was, well, just that, little in comparison to today’s versions of the whale.  He (presuming a he, okay or she) was slim and streamlined and “quite fit” so to speak compared to today’s bluberous whale.  But my dear, dear folks…it was this guy’s tail end that got me, and perhaps it will you.

This photo is of one of its two fins.  Only the one looked like this; the damn thing had the equivalent of our five toes and by the looks of it needed to have it’s nails clipped.  Yes, up close and personal there were some nasty looking toe nails!

Got me to thinking about mermaids and such…and things like are we descendants of whales and dolphins; we do know that whales and dolphins have this kindred spirit?  Strange thoughts, but this thing, right before my eyes, hand-in-hand with my research, readings and studies these days of things spiritual – well, okay by the world’s standards I’m nuts; but who says it isn’t a possibility?  We are such an arrogant lot, are we not; to think that we have it all!

Well, if we humans of today have it all – you can keep it, because we’re killing everying, including the very air we breath and as of late the oceans wherein life has lived for millions of years, much of which at least I know nothing about.  How deep is the sea, the ocean, and is there anything underneath what we call its floor?  Is Atlantis really there, will it rise; why would it wish to rise to a world that slowly but surely we are making totally uninhabitable.

All these rambling and random thoughts flow through my mind along the tiny stream of life; some times I take hold and examine; other times they continue to flow by, eventually they will return to the forefront of thought and when it is the appointed time will be examined or re-examined as the case may be, under a light of enlightenment. For now, they flow; they will always be there; perhaps hidden on the dark side before returning; but know this, not a thought ever disappears – much like you think you’ve emptied the trash from your computer, but you’ve never really gotten rid of it; someone can always find it if he digs deep enough.

Well, food for thought; pictures for thought.  Just had to share this with you.  Perhaps this is why one of my favourite all time movies is, “Free Willy!”