Cinco de What the heck?!

[Jimmyz123]

There are people that pay tons of money to go on those trips in Baja where they go out and get to pet the whales. Man we got that shot for free. I really felt like the whales understood the situation. The didn't surface again for about 2 minutes later and it was up on the edge of the kelp. Now that I'm thinking, I wonder if it was a baby and it's mom. I did think it was strange that two whales would travel so close together.

Originally Posted by SorryCharlie

Very Coool.

I had an almost identical experience in Dana out in the kelp by the point about 3 weeks ago.

I was fishing tied off to some kelp and saw a mom and calf gray about 150 yards away and thought to myself "Very cool, but please stay over there." I was also very surprised to see them swimming in among the kelp, next thing I know I hear something, look up and all I can see is a big swirl where something very large had just surfaced.

Next thing I know less then 5 feed under the kayak out from behind the kelp appears the big mom whale she rolled over a bit, looking at me with those massive eyes, and suddenly the calf comes rolling up to..... Both surfaced and I was within touching distance of the calf. I was too busy crapping my pants to worry about my camera. Just as you said I was scared the wake from them surfacing would rock me, but they were so graceful, gone without a single splash.

That experience was the entire reason I went out and bought a gopro, I would have loved to have got that moment on camera.