yesterday was fucking amazing

it was just so cool.

evan and i went north about 10 or so miles and parked his car. from here, we walked about 2 or 3 miles to the beach at knik arm. when we got there the tide was the lowest ive ever seen it. so we walked on the silt out to the water and played in the coves and got our shoes dirty and whatnot, eventually sitting in a patch of moss for about half an hour. during this half hour we didnt realize (trees were blocking our view) but the tide had come in. we kept on hearing something but couldnt figure out what it was. it sounded like someone peeing and coughing, and although we were trespassing and no one was around for about a mile radius, theres loads of empty beer bottles and whatnot back there so this scared us a bit. we stood up and walked around, trying to find the sound. first, evan saw that tide had risen high enough that a rock in one of the coves was making eddies, accounting for the pissing noise. and then, i saw it. i was looking out over this amazing, mile wide river and a beluga surfaced. the coughing sound was it breathing through its blowhole. there was a pod of probably 20+. we watched them in awe for several minutes until eventually they were gone. about ten minutes later we saw another pod of whales surfacing, but they were all black and had back fins (dorsal?) so we sorta assumed they were orcas. so fucking cool. and the weather was gorgeous. we were untouchable. haha, and then we ran across the tracks as a train was coming, which was a horrible idea now that i think about it. we were only maybe twenty or so feet past the tracks when it passed and we'd been running the whole time at full speed. meh. i really really like evan. i dont want to throw the word love in there cause that'll make it just too weird.

it makes me really sad that i take alaska and all of its beauty for granted. the belugas helped me see that. but, theres no way of avoiding it, the monotony on mountains, the smell of a wet forest. its horrible that beauty can become so ho-hum that i cant even recognize it while im stepping upon it.

oh, belugas, how youve enlightened me.