I am currently experiencing a frisson (noun, pronounced FREE-zon), which is a French term for a sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear, a thrill. We are going on a whale watch today. That's pretty thrilling, I'd say, for a girl from the prairie, who has seen more buffalo than whales in her lifetime. Coming to the ocean itself is always a new experience, like being on the edge of the world and knowing there is an entirely new environment with new creatures out there to discover by catamaran, kayak or tourist boat. I've seen dolphins off the Gulf Coast of Florida and patted sting rays in Boston. There is nothing like this new-world thrill.
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