Here's a handful of photos from Stephen Fry's TwitPic stream. As well as the graceful moves of live whales, they were sad to discover a dead whale, as Stephen described on Twitter.

OMG to the power of 10! Mother & calf grey whale swam with us, played with us. Astounding, wonderful, joyous experience. Sx

Sad sight of recently dead juvenile gray whale floating in lagoon, gulls pecking at it. 1 creature's ill-luck a blessing to others. I sp

Stephen is worried about his thighs today. Here's his final Tweets from last night ...

Director just casually dropped a bombshell. I have to ride a mule tomorrow. A thousand boiling arses. Two hours up a mountain. Buttery f**k.

Heigh ho - to bed. The morrow will bring weary thighs and much else besides. Till then x