Whale watching from the boat...

There was 5-7 whales all males, traveling south on their Competition Run, finding whom is the most fit to reproduce...survival of the strong!

My Friend!!!!

In light, in water, swimming together we play.

Surrounded by the Dolphin Tribe

~Thirty dolphins surround me, I swim in the middle of the pack!

Mamma Dolphin and Baby Dolphin align (see the little fins below mammas belly)

After a Spin on the Surface a Dive to the Deep

Swimming with a Buddy, swim with Love!

Swimming Up, and Up and All Around

In the light of love!

A Group of Friends

Wake up in Kona---Day 1 Hawaii

Ahh, I finally made it to Hawaii, and it feels so good, so right. I am in warm sun and cool water that refreshes the spirit. My spirit is so high, so full of love for lava! Today started as I woke up to the massive Cruz ship coming into Kialua Bay, the lights were bright in the dark of early morning. I rode down to the small boat harbor and walked out to the end where I watched the sun rise next to the Hieu, or Hawaiian sacred site. The cultural site was built up lava, and a bamboo structure that rose into the sky, annointed with leis, flowers and other offerings and aligned with Mona Keu, one of the active volcano's on the island. I offered some seeds and some of the shells that I collected, and gave thanks in love and gratitude to be on the island, asking that I may connect in respect to the mana of island and its ocean waves. I walked past the ancient fish pools and across the crescent beach of shallow reef to a shaded spot to post for the day. I layed in the sun, read, swam, ran, and all around chilled out in the warm Kona sun. I met up with Heidi after she swam with dolphins all morning, and ate the freshest, ahi poke around from the fish market Bite Me.
No pictures yet, as I have to just focus on this new land, understanding it and my place here. I can feel that I am in the right place here, and know that there is much for me to learn here. I am keeping my heart open and my soul alive, refreshed and thriving!
Much love to you all!!!

SOME HAWAIIAN VOCAB I USED TODAY:
MO'O- water dwelling guardian spirit
MANA- spiritual power
MALAMA KA 'AINA-care for the land
KAHUA KAPA- womans workyard
HA LAU- long house
WA'A- canoe
HALE ALI'I- house of the chiefs
HONU-green sea turtle

Iya time poetry espeial:
Winds blow for the spirit earth
changing the directions of existence,
Adding implications os mind matter
to be freed from eachother
yet know we are one on the earth
in harmony with our beings being
Close and aware of each Other.

PS DRINK LOTS OF H2O!!!!!!

Sea Sick in SLO (My Bro on Drums!)

Nate, Helena, and Na'kill, SEA SICK take on Broad Fest, an all day festival on Broad Street in SLO, boasting at least a dozen different punk bands from all over Cali...Cali's finest punk rockers showed up to drink beer, some Tequila and get their wiggly, giggly, mashin', moshin' groove on under Central Coast Sun!

Whale Pictures...watch out...

1. Blubber and Shoe for Scale,
2. Beauty and Baleen,
3. Barnacles, whale fleas and hair on the chinny, chin, chin. All marine mammals have hair.
4. Girls doing the brunt work,
5. People standing around baby gray whale.

Whale Day Dissection

Dry Lagoon, wet with Inches of water from the rain
Inches of blubber; thick skin.
The whale is washed on the beach by roaring Humboldt waves.
Now women dig deep into its flesh with knives; knives that have to be sharpened every 15 cuts.
The baleen is being removed, the cut up tongue in the sand, looks like 6 different brains, bright Red.
The hip bones will come out, they are evolutionary evidence that whales, which once walked upon our forests, wetlands, and beaches now swim deep into our mysterious seas and no longer need big hips to support legs. The hips are only as big as my hands on this one year old whale. Recording science, placed in plastic bags...
I saw whiskers on his chin, white like sea foam, to blend into the wisks of water as the whale swims through the sea. The baby gray whale is so big compared to a human. There were 15 people standing and observing, a teacher, a scientist, photographers, students, even a dog. There are lots of ladies getting into the flesh of such a sacred baby animal.

Grey whales
Barnacles so beautiful
and lice that lives on the gray smooth skin,
Your skin a marble of different whites and grays.
Home in the sea, for us now to sea,
we welcome all of your spirit, and off gas (smelly) to enter our beings.
Whale on the beach, you are here to teach,
to become all of us within your reach.
Your body is curved and mangled in the debris,
how did you get hurt in the sea?
A boat, a propeller,
a killer whale?
Strips on your fins, make me curious,
your life need be longer, and stories longer told.
You are a girl, only one year old.


This is my first whale dissection story told.
Writing to change the world.
Iya May