Penguin Leaps Into Tour Boat to Avoid Being Eaten By Killer Whales!

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. "I don't know what this thing is, or anything about the creatures inside,

but they CAN'T be worse than killer whales. It's right there in the name."

On the gorgeous summer afternoon, on a glass-flat strait, my sister, aunt and I scattered my father's ashes while circumnavigating James Island, probably his favourite place on Earth, and home of some of our family's cherished memories, although other than my 92-year old aunt, I am the only one left to carry those memories.

While on the way there from the marina, about a 20-minute motor, a pod of orcas surfaced all around us. Although they are well-known to be harmless to humans, they certainly have the potential to tear our small boat apart and bite each of us in half. It was a little unnerving, quite surreal, and, for some reason, very poignant.

I don't imagine I'll ever forget that. TONS of very efficient killing machines that great whites are rightfully afraid of, and I could have touched them with an oar.


It felt like they were welcoming my dad back home.