Whale of a Time . . .
I received one the other day forwarded from my friend that I just had to put up for y’all. Check out his (unedited) email before scrolling down to look at the photo.
“Well . . . while out fishing the other day we saw a couple of whales rolling, finning, and occasionally jumping out of the water. We stopped to watch and while watching the whale surfaced about 15′ . . . yep that’s feet, from the boat, the big guy went completely airborne blotting out my whole windshield view from the boat. He landed about ten feet off the bow of the boat, sending a wave of water over the whole boat, the wave washed completely over the boat and up into the cab getting me soaked in the process. One of my customers with a knee jerk reaction happened to take this picture as the whale was beginning his leap . . . needless to say I slammed the vessel into high gear and hauled ass . . . I believe that this was his way of warning us to keep clear . . . so . . . we did.
Quite the shot, It would have turned out better, but the gal (an older woman) while showing the picture on her digital camera accidentally deleted it . . . we were all pretty bummed out, but the gal had the picture re-claimed from her trash can, so the remake is not the quality that was originally shot.
Still all in all a great picture and a pretty cool story to boot. You can just see the railing of the boat it’s about 7 feet off the water so I believe he cleared at least 8 feet horizontally when he was completely out of the water, pretty awesome stuff. All for now.
Pat”
How cool is that?
Ice
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