Manu swims with sea lions, watches whales during hoop respite

Manu Ginobili will have some neat stories to tell us if and when we finally have a basketball season.

The Spurs All-Star guard spent some time over the weekend swimming with sea lions and watching whales with his family at Puerto Madryn, Argentina. And according to his twitter account of the experience, Ginobili had a .

It’s a decidedly interesting diversion for the Spurs’ resident naturalist. Maybe I can tell him about my own open-jeep trip through a bison herd at the Custer State Park in South Dakota over my vacation.

It’s too bad that Ginobili didn’t tweet a picture or two of his adventure.