Sighting

I try to keep this blog about the short I'm trying to make, but every now and then I'll throw in a sketch or photo about something off topic. Like now. I was just in Florida for 10 days with my family and we snorkeled off the shore as we usually do when we're down there. The visibility wasn't as good on a particular day, and I couldn't see more than a few feet in front of me. We were by some rocks, peacefully watching the schools of silver fish sail by, when suddenly a huge shape came right at my face. I had no idea what it was, I just knew it was huge. And swimming fast. At me. I immediately and quite inarticulately yelled, "Guys, BIG! THING! HERE!" And booked it back to shore as fast as I could. Well I shouldn't have been so chicken, because my dad got a good enough look at it to determine that it was a harmless manatee. We got to see it later when we were standing around in the water sans snorkels and it swam around our legs for a few seconds, before taking off to deeper waters. Below is a quick sketch I did later of glimpsing the hulking shape underwater before fleeing. In other marine life news, we followed a large manta ray around for an hour, and rescued a baby sea turtle. Now I have a few more little summer trips before getting back to the grind.