This is a sure sign that whale season is upon us.
“If it had barnacles, I would have been ripped apart.”
Over the years, we’ve seen kayakers caught up in the midst of some very close encounters, but this might take the cake.
I’m constantly amazed by animals and their ability to navigate travelling huge distances with pinpoint accuracy. That doesn’t mean things don’t go wrong from time to time.
Ranging from 12-16 m, the humpback whale isn’t small – so when a mother and its babe decided to put on a little show, they caught a few kayakers off guard.
We’re lucky enough to watch whales frolic off of our coastline, but there won’t be many of us who have come this close to these magnificent creatures.
Watching a whale breach goes a long way to appreciating the majesty of these massive animals. Being in the kayak it lands on is a different story.
Whale watchers in Australia were in for a treat over the weekend after a rather rare sighting off the Gold Coast. Here’s that beast enjoying a good frolic.
A team of scientists has captured the world’s first live images of a giant squid in it’s natural habitat. This is the same mysterious creature thought to have inspired the myth of the “kraken” – a tentacled monster which was reputed to drag ships and sailors to their doom.
A few days ago, retired college biology professor, Bill Bouton, headed to San Luis Obispo, California, to snap some pics of some of his favourite subjects, birds. However, he stumbled on something considerably bigger, and decidedly less aerial.