I was on the bluff here in the Cove, just looking out to sea after a walk and there it was, a whale leaping right out of the water. I've never seen a whale breech before, not in real life, the entire body up in the air, that enormous head looking north, the sleek gray skin so shiny in the sun. He (she?) made about six leaps, then dove deep and long. Came up again and blew an enormous spume of water and air, rounded the corner and headed north north north for home.