It isn’t every day that we see an albino behemoth cruising the waters off Australia so whale-spotters were understandable excited by this sighting over the weekend.

Australia’s Gold Coast was the setting for the rare sighting of the pigment-challenged humpback whale, originally thought to be the famous ‘Migaloo’ but later dubbed the rather creative ‘Son of Migaloo’. The Telegraph reports:

[Sea World marine sciences director Trevor] Long confirmed this mammal was smaller and younger than Migaloo and was the ‘other’ white whale which has regularly been sighted off the east coast of Australia since 2011…

Migaloo gained fame as he was, for a long time, the only white whale in a group of whales that numbered close to 23,000 according to Southern Cross University Academic, Wally Franklin.

It is believed the whale was on its migration route towards the warmer waters off the Great Barrier Reef when it was spotted.

I would recommend this beast stays out of the sun as much as possible, we know that albinos and direct sunlight don’t tend to mix all that well.

[source:telegraph]