Books with Spirit – Joyfulness between horses and people

Man, I am reee…ally coming out of the closet publishing this story on the world wide web!

I organised my trip to the South Island because at a place called Kaikoura, you can see whales all year round, feeding in the deep undersea Kaikoura canyon, which is quite close to the shore.  And I wanted to see if I could talk to a whale like I can talk to horses. 

Well unfortunately (or maybe not) I was way too nauseous from the pitching of the boat to really enjoy my whale contact and I was certainly not in a space to do deep and meaningful “mind connections”.  I also noticed that while I was taking lots of photos, I was not actually enjoying the moment of contact with these amazing creatures.  A bit of a trap, that, when you’re a tourist I think – at least, it was for me!

The next day, I went out to a seal colony that you could see from the road and climbed down onto a rock just above them and sat with them for a large part of the morning.  I took lots of photos here too, but because I was there for so long, I had plenty of time to connect with them and enjoy them as well.  (Our whale guide had explained that if you get too close and they feel threatened they can attack you and do quite a bit of damage).

I had been there a while, feeling their energy and connecting with them, when a young seal came out of the water.  I got this clear kind of video footage across my mind (weird I know, but I can’t describe it any other way) of a shark in the distance and this little half grown seal twisting and diving out of the way.  It wasn’t a close call, it was more a keeping out of the shark’s way so he didn’t even get a chance to come after the seal.  The feeling that went with it was a kind of “Whew!”

At this point in time it’s a good opportunity to explain that communication with the animals can happen in quite different ways.  It seems to me that different people and different horses have “abilities” or find it easier to communicate in some ways better than others.  On other occasions I’ve had that clear video like footage across my mind.  Bobby most often talks in a very clear sometimes quite loud “voice” in my head, that it would be poossible to think it was a vivid imagination if I hadn’t had all the proof that it’s not.  Some people and animals communicate with their feelings and when they “connect” the human can feel the fear or the tension or the grief and do something to help change that.  Sometimes when you’re connected, you just ”know” something that you could not possibly have known any other way – and if you act on that “knowing”, it brings you the result that proves that it was a real communication with the animal. 

Back to the seal again….

Then the seal looked up at me and licked his lips, just like a cat does, a little repeated flicking out of his tongue outside his mouth.  That was the same physical signal that a horse gives me when he’s understood me or I’ve understood him (although a horse does it bigger).  It’s the same physical signal that a cat uses – a dainty flicking of the tongue.  I was so…..oooo excited that maybe this seal was giving me the same signal that we had communicated. 

So I said to him ” if that was you and you were talking to me, lick your lips again”  And he did…..

And in all the time that I sat there, I never saw another seal lick his lips like that.

I’ve thought that I’ve connected with wild animals before, with  kangaroos from the back balcony on my sister’s bush block in Queanbeyan and with the mother tern on the river at Wainuiomata who stopped attacking me when I stepped back (to give her her comfort zone back) and told her I would not come close to her babies or hurt them.  But I’m a sceptical person by nature and training, (believe it or not) so I was looking for clear proof that they could hear me.  And I felt that this incident gives me that proof that I can hear wild animals talk to me.  WOW!!!!! more joyful tears – New Zealand was full of them!

It’s going to be such fun exploring this with other wild animals!