Whale watching is one of the hugest and most successful scams going on in America today. It seems like everyone traveling to New England puts this on their must-do list, and whale watching companies in Gloucester, MA make $45 a head, so everyone should be happy right? WRONG. The problem with whale watching is that it's a misnomer. Whale watching should really be called Boating With a Chance of Whale. In June of 2005, I went on a four-hour whale watch off Cape Ann that headed north toward Maine, which I am happy to report that I did not pay for. Three other 20-somethings, forty 9th graders, and I saw about six minutes worth of unidentifiable humpback whale parts breaching the surface, and spent the rest of the time taking pictures like this:
We also enjoyed attempting to "call" the whales a la Dory in Finding Nemo which turned out to be a source of great entertainment during the many minutes that the horizon was whale-less. Whale watching isn't always a success, but it can be fun as long as you have $50 and four hours to kill, a digital camera, and the reflexes of a mountain lion so you can snap pictures in the 13 nanoseconds of whale emergance. A strong stomach doesn't hurt either.
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