题目内容：

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Who needs more things as birthday gifts? My 70th birthday was coming up in June when I did Kayaking（划皮划艇）with my son. Paul and I took a double kayak so I could stop 1.（row） anytime to take photos.

Our guides knew the best places 2. (find) whales, sea lions and dolphins. We were never 3. (disappoint）) Sometimes we didn't bother with the photos and just watched in wonder as magnificent 4. (creature) came nearer for us to see eyeball to eyeball. Posing for a photographer was not high 5. their priority list. Sometimes, though, the sea lions would appear to be looking 6. (direct) at us as if to say, "Here I am. Take my picture?

One morning, the whales put on 7. performance for us, probably no more than 20 meters offshore. We 8. (see) a unique tail appear, then another, then another. Each time, it was a little 9. (close) to us. They were coming our way! We were screaming, "Whale, whale!" every time one jumped.

All too soon, it was time for us to leave Hanson Island, 10. we had spent four wonderful days. I asked Paul, "What are you going to do for my 80th?"