Brad's Excitement at the Beach!

Hello.  Kim is letting me write on the blog today.  Megan and Jarod are here, but I am sure Kim will write about that in other entries.  We went to beach last night after work and I tried out my new surfboard.  I didn't have all that much luck, but it wasn't too bad for my first time out.  I am going to take a few lessons later this month.  When the sun started to set I brought in my board.  I was drying off with Kim, Megan and Jarod and the boys when a Kiwi boy came running up yelling, "Look at the orca!  Look at the orca!".  We looked out to where I had been surfing (or attempting to surf) five minutes ago and saw the 4 foot black dorsal fin of a killer whale.  It was huge.  We never saw its face, but it would come up high enough for us to see its back.  There was one that was right were I was surfing which was only about 75 yards from the shore and there were 3 or 4 farther out.  We talked to the Kiwi boy's dad when we were leaving the beach.  He was about 40 and was a Gisborne native.  He said he had never seen killer whales before today.  Apparently the scent of my succulent American meat had brought them in from parts unknown.  Jarod and I are surfing again today, so I hope they have left.