SHAMU

SHAMU, SHAMU, SHAMU ! ! !
Vibrating full- volume drummings, shout as if you were fully Indian blooded.
Trainers motion arms up & down rhytmically, martially...The audience engages enthusiastically.
The KILLER WHALE SHOW is about to start. It all revolves around the super star SHAMU.
He never lets the audience down.
It's a SUPER SHOW. These3 orcas are 100% tuned to their trainers clad in B & W wetsuits and do exactly as they are told, follow hand gestures or inaudible whistles. A trainer swims with SHAMU and after is gently catapulted onshore after a dashing brisk traverse of the BIG pool speedoing like a rocket. The choreography is perfect..
Every single action has an immediate reward in the way of A fish or a handful from the bucket.
They are working for it!!! and receive it open mouthed, bright lining teethies, politely, no grunges unless it's specified so.

WHEN are we gonna get wet. People come for that too, clad in their raincoats... or not.
16 first rows are at risk. I was on the 6th. 100% chance !!! A deliberate tail produced a TSUNAMI that drenched me. I got it. Soaked despite the protection of my flimsy Gore Tex like Niagara Falls. The sun will dry me in less than an hour...
It's not only only the breaching, curling and twisting. Tail walks, spins you name it.
These boys are GOOD and their trainers too!!!

SHAMU rules but ULISES is the mega whale. He was flown from BCN Zoo and still displays his particular bent dorsal fin. Later in the afternoon at the private show for diners only (no splashing) I could see how well adapted he seems to be and I cried.

SEAWORLD captivates you for the whole day or +. Next were the sleek dolphins, sharks, sea otters, funny sea lions, all the pets,
and bottom feeders, huge tusked giant walruses with their LONG moustached whiskers (Elefant mari) eating and puking, regurgitating their food, savouring. GROSS !!! I heard.

The simulated chopper eventful flight over the Artic braving raging snow storms with all kind of unexpected dips down crackling glaciers, even diving underwater to make it finally save to base camp in the N Pole showing all about it.

I wasn't there for the adrenaline rides, not even had time to eat a Shipwrecked meal.
Just pop corn kept me going till the end of the day
with a final sleep with the giant sea turtles doze.

The ride to Seaworld and Old Town logged me another 30 kms.