Going to try and start a Friday Finds, a weekly post on things we’ve learned, discovered or otherwise found.
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We found this skeleton of a Ballenas (ba YEE nus) and dedicate it to our Vancouver Island friends, who often look out to Ballenas Island and mispronounce it!!! We discovered that ballenas is Spanish for ‘whale’.
Ballenas skeleton
Something else I discovered this week is which family members are willing to strip down and have a shower in a waterfall. Down to the bare butt. Let me say, in this one event the males in our family far out did the females.
A tad cold but it felt wonderful.
I didn’t know there was a ballenas whale! COOL!!!
I didn’t either……then I discovered ballenas isn’t a type of whale, it means whale. Had to come all the way to Baja for me to learn that, and how to pronounce it correctly.
PS Had to update the post after I got educated more
Hmm….considering the sign says “ballenas gris”, I’m going to guess that’s a grey whale? Which is a kind of baleen whale, no? I wonder if they have a different word for a whale with teeth?
You are correct, ballenas gris is grey whale. Don’t know about baleen vs. teeth.