Last weekend , needing a lam from the strain of LA , I took a road - trip to San Pedro and then hopped on a eminent - speed catamaran to the island ofCatalina . Having chatter many of the Greek islands , I did n’t have mellow Hope that the slip to Catalina would be eventful or inspiring as much as it would be relaxing in a pig - out - on - junk - food for thought , conurbation - out - on - the - beach , read - some - trashy - magazine kind of agency . After all , about the only interesting thing 3,000 local anaesthetic say regarding their neck of the woods is : " Hey , Jack Nicholson filmed a bunch of aspect from Chinatown here ! "
Kind of pales in equivalence to account I ’d heard in Delos about the sungod , Apollo .
But I could n’t have been more wrong . ( Not about the Jack Nicholson / Apollo comparison , but about the stumble not being eventful or inspiring . )
On the catamaran over , we actually had to slow down for a stat mi or so as the largest school of dolphins I ’d ever run into , made its manner through the Pacific . It was almost as if we were being attacked by the finned puppet . Then I heard the slacker - of - a - first - fellow say , " Dooood , they ’re porpoises , not dolphins . " Which of course of action got me wondering not only about the spelling of dude when pull out for several seconds , but about the difference between the two mamals .
As explained by Slacker - matey , the dorsal fin on porpoises is triangular , like a shark ’s , while a dolphin ’s is mould more like a wave . Porpoises do n’t have the salient rostrum or pick that Flipper had , either , and are smaller animals in oecumenical .
Then he actually went on to say that porpoises are shy animals . " Dooood , " he began again , " it ’s like , soOoo rare that they near people or sauceboat . You hombre so totally lucked out . " Which was exactly how I feel : golden .
