Whale watching is on my bucket list. Learning to fly would be pretty cool, I have 4 commercial pilots and 2 trained by them in the family so it's not been an urgency. My cousin took me up a few years ago in the Cessna, (182 I believe) flew over the farm and turned off the motor. He then said, we're not going to drop I can glide us down to the fields (one groomed as a grass airport, one not). I remember the ka tink noise as the prop made very very slow revolutions.
Great pics!