So the other morning we witnessed a Garry Larson Far Side Cartoon in the making.\u00a0 This is a true story \u2013 while sailing in the Gulf of Tehuantepec.\u00a0 Visualize please \u2026. sun rising, seas flat.\u00a0 A pod of dolphins approach us to starboard.\u00a0 So graceful, so beautiful; gliding along the surface, dipping below, then surfacing again \u2026 rhythmically for several minutes.\u00a0\u00a0 Fast, very fast.\u00a0 Then suddenly one flies completely out of the water, followed by another.\u00a0 Judges give a perfect 10 to both.\u00a0 Fine execution! \u00a0\u00a0A third missiles out of the water \u2026. tail first!\u00a0 Begins a rotation \u2026. splat \u2026. lands hard on its back and sinks into the sea.\u00a0 Judges give 2.5 for initiative \u2013 but the execution was pitiful!<\/p>\n
Moments later we see the entire pod quickly leave with Herman rapidly swimming to catch up.\u00a0 Thought bulb over their heads \u2026. \u201cThanks a lot Herman!\u00a0 Yeah, that was embarrassing.\u00a0 I hope those Yatistas didn’t see.\u00a0 Let\u2019s get out of here.”.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So the other morning we witnessed a Garry Larson Far Side Cartoon in the making.\u00a0 This is a true story \u2013 while sailing in the Gulf of Tehuantepec.\u00a0 Visualize please \u2026. sun rising, seas flat.\u00a0 A pod of dolphins approach us to starboard.\u00a0 So graceful, so beautiful; gliding along the surface, dipping below, then surfacing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}