The day the southern right whales passed by the Nobbies they surfaced quite close to the shore <br />Three giants of the southern oceans each weighing thirty tons maybe more <br />Their tails were as large as a small boat the biggest creatures in real life that I'd ever seen <br />Though I'm not a man of the ocean and to ways of the sea creatures I'm rather green. <br /> <br />The great sea mammals the humpback and blue whales are creatures I yet have to see <br />Like I say I'm not a man of saltwater and I don't venture far out to sea <br />But they are far bigger and heavier than right whales and right whales seem huge in my eyes <br />The blues and humpbacks must look gigantic great creatures of enormous size. <br /> <br />As I stood on a cliff overlooking the sea at the Nobbies three southern right whales passed by <br />Three giants of the southern oceans and I'll remember till the day that I die <br />That their tails were as large as a small boat such things <br />one don't see every day <br />And something that I will long remember for such memories don't fade away.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-seeing-southern-right-whales/
