The Killer Whales

Tales from the Backyard…  One day while in Alaska, I went down to the marina to check on my boat and saw the dock master watching something through his binoculars, so I asked what was going on.  He said that there was a pod of killer Whales across the bay, so I ran down to my boat to go out and watch.  At that time I was having trouble with the starter and had to start it by hand, but it starts easy so off I went.  I didn't want to get to close so I stopped a couple hundred yards away and watched these magnificent creatures lazily swimming along the shore.  This was the first time this had occurred since I was up there and it was so neat to be able to witness it.  After a while they went down and didn't come back to the surface and then all of a sudden they blew right next to the boat and scared the crap out of me.  I should have known they were as curious as I, but to have six or seven swimming around me and bigger than the boat was more than I could take, so I ran astern and pulled the cowling off the motor and began pulling on the starter rope.  I pulled and pulled in a frantic haste trying to get the engine going but it wouldn't start.  Then they just swam away.  It was then I realized I hadn't turned on the ignition key.