Lucky for Penny Graham, the owner and operator of Mariner Cruises Whale and Seabird Tours, the humpback whale that breached in the Bay of Fundy just metres away from her boat, she was quick with the Canon.
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Here’s whale-watching gone large: watch an enormous, back-flipping whale caught on film off Canada’s Brier Island during a marine cruise. “I am unsure I am going to ever stay to see that once more”.
“It’s a moment I’ll never forget”, Graham told CBC News. This was certainly an experience she will remember for a long time.
“There was a lot of hollering and screaming on that boat”, she said. When they were struggling against a wall of fog she stopped the engine on the boat and listens for the whales coming up to breathe. “Everybody was clapping and laughing”.
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Scientists say whales breach for a number of reasons, including: knocking parasites off, scaring fish into a tighter school to eat, and communication. It was wonderful to be part of that. “It was just non-stop”, said Graham, who estimated the whale breached about 30 times. “I feel it was doing it out of pure enjoyment”.
