On my last trip to southern California, part work for Full Sail and part graduation trip for my niece, we went whale watching. I desperately wanted to see Blue Whales, but they eluded us that day. It was still a great day to whale watch on a small 8-person boat.
Someone shared this with me tonight and I was so moved by it, I needed to share it. You really need to click on full screen to experience the beauty of this drone footage.
From the description: “A drone shot so rare it might as well be a myth: a surface-lunge feeding Blue Whale! Prior to last summer I had never seen a Blue Whale surface lunge feeding on krill. In fact, prior to last year I had never even seen krill on the surface! While this isn’t the first time I’ve filmed this behavior, it IS the first time I can share it with you all here on social media!
With upwards of 100 Blue Whales currently residing in San Diego waters, Erica, Kyle, and I decided to spend the day zooming around the offshore waters of San Diego in hopes of filming something special. We never dreamed that we’d stumble upon a massive area of surface feeding whales nearly 20 miles from shore! Everywhere you looked there was a lunge feeding Fin or Blue Whale!”
His entire YT page is amazing. And now I want to go whale watching again.
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