Baby Manatees

This evening I've been swimming with two baby manatees - that is, they swam out to me, curious, playful, and quite adorable!
So innocent of the things happening now in the Gulf of Mexico.
You can imagine how happy I was when Ocean came out to the end of a jetty in Florida, where we both are in order to assist in any ways we can, and told me that the gushing oil is being stopped at this point.
We're praying constantly anyway!
But it just felt wonderful to have hope again!
Hope, the sages tell us, is a very strong way to bring good vibes in, and its' attendant faith in God, held devotedly, must help all of us fish, mammals, and reptiles in the Gulf!
These little guys today, though, were so joyous, and were venturing forth without the adults possibly for the first time!
Gravitating to an area where dogs too were swimming - Ocean had brought her own rescued dogs out for a swim - the manatee babies kept lifting their cute, doughy heads out of the water with their large, questing eyes peering around, making contact by swimming just feet away, and entirely enjoying making the acquaintance of the world!
They're such exquisite beings, and so large and grand!
These little manatee kids were around five feet or so, and naturally, I resisted the urge to touch them - it's wisely against the human laws to touch manatees, and any other sea being, and so I respect them and their privacy too - we Mers always wait for other beings to make contact with us as they wish - so I merely smiled back and admired them!
The Gulf is such a beautiful place - in the areas that are so far untouched - and taking some time off from helping with the clean up has been lovely.
I try not to be too gloomy about the future prospects of other disasters.
We Mers can only hope that all you humans take heed and change your world by becoming politically active.
Read Ocean's page here too for more ideas.


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October 21, 2009

So many would-be Mermaids and Mermen write to me for information on our lives, that I feel I will be sharing much about our lives with all of you as the months roll by.

First, we are fish.

Yes, The Mers are proud to be cold-blooded, shimmering, quick, lively members of the huge order of fish.

We groan on hearing that some attempt to pin the name of mammal to us. We are definitely not warm-blooded, slow, furry, child-bearing mammals!

We’d have to be enormous, like Manatees, and just as slow, to be mammals.

Fish are, after all, the most gloriously gorgeous of all the species on our planet, don’t you think?

Silvery, most of us, glimmering, scaled, exquisitely shaped, and fast as underwater lightning!

We, like all fish, lay eggs, and don't go through any sort of awkward period of malformation that mars the early months or years of the offspring of mammals.

We’re always gorgeous!

I can’t imagine having warm blood - always having to stay in warm latitudes, worrying about temperatures all the time, and so on. Even wearing clothing!

Of course, speaking of Manatees, we all adore them, and spend lots of time playing with them when they venture out to salt watery seas - and - this is key! - if the Manatees choose to be among us Mers. We always communicate with them and with every other member of other species, and honor their own choices. Similarly, humans should, of course, always let any other member of other species decide for him or herself if encounters might be possible.

We think Manatees are great! They’re beautiful as they are - large and ponderous, extremely intelligent, and soulful.

We Mers just tend to be quite different.

We’re quick, agile, and thoroughly enjoy traveling all about the globe, never having to be confined in one area or another.

The only thing we must pursue is the plant growth. After all, we’re vegan - and this we share with the Manatees and with the Great Sea Turtles - and we love certain types of seaweed and sea grasses more than others. They have growing seasons and areas where they’re more delectable than others, and so we tend to congregate there, much as you humans crowd into restaurants!

And - naturally, we Mers have a special fondness for humans who are compassionate enough to be vegan, and it is only they we approach. Would you like ot learn more about becoming Vegan?

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