Nature never ceases to amaze us, humans. You may witness something that you have never imagined before. It will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For instance, you attend a sightseeing tour off the shore and see a massive humpback whale breaching the water right next to your boat. You must feel like you win a lottery ticket. Incredible!
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This does happen with photographer Douglas Craft. He captured the breathtaking moments when he was on a whale-watching boat in the Californian waters on Monterey Bay.
The enormous humpback whale was spotted leaping out of the water right next to a fishing boat. It stood right behind the fisherman!
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Douglas took incredible photos of the giant marine mammal from the porthole of his boat. The scene got him stunned for a few seconds but he immediately took out his camera and snapped it. Luckily, his shooting angle enabled him to get a bigger and clearer view of the whale. Noticeably, the creature made the fishing boat look incredibly tiny in comparison.
“I went below deck to shoot from a porthole close to the waterline. That’s what gives this amazing perspective of looking up at the whale,” he told a news agency.
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When the photographers share photos of the breaching massive humpback whale on his accounts, they went viral in an instant. People can’t stop “wowing” at what Douglas captured on his camera. It’s probably a miracle!
Douglas also had help from Kate Cummings, a whale watcher who managed to capture a video of the whale exploding out of the waters. “It was fun capturing this video. The whale had already breached multiple times much further away from the fisherman. But sometimes when whales breach multiple times, they’re also heading a specific direction when they’re underwater building momentum for the next breach,” Kate revealed to the media.
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You can watch the video below!
For those who may not know, adult humpback whales weigh around 25–30 metric tons (28–33 short tons), and at 12–16 m (39–52 ft) in lengths. These giant marine mammals are very popular among whale watchers for their breaching and other distinctive behaviors.
This is the moment the world’s largest sea turtle emerges from the water onto the beach. It is a majestic leatherback turtle, and it seems to have come out of the water to rest upon the sand.You can watch video at the end of the this article.
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This clip captured an unbelievable scene in which a giant leatherback turtle came up from the ocean depths for a break to rest on the sand, and to reflect on her long life. A tourist initially captured this turtle video at an unknown beach, but it appears to have been mostly forgotten by the press, though a few independent outlets had reported it.
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Several sightseers gazed at the scene in amazement and excitement as the massive turtle made use of her flippers to creep across the sandy shore before heading back into the ocean, her home. After a few attempts to get back into the water, the sea turtle succeeds, and rides off into the waves of the magnificent sea, never to be seen again. This was indeed a rare event to behold. Watching this video is the next best thing to being there.
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I bet the turtle was 150 years old and still young! It’s funny how her motivation falls when the water moves back. I assume she’s clever enough to wait for the water to return as it’s easier for her to move in water. Let Mother Nature do the heavy lifting. Leatherbacks are well-known for being among the biggest turtles on Earth, and unlike freshwater turtles, sea turtles get pretty darn big. How big do you ask? These turtles are capable of reaching up to seven feet in length and can weigh up 2,000 pounds, literally a ton!
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During nesting season, the turtles climb up out of the sea to dig a nest, and laying their eggs in the sand near the water to safely hatch and repopulate their species. Upon the hatching of the eggs, the new baby sea turtles are at a close enough to the ocean to scuttle away and begin their lives. Remember this though: those babies take an unbelievable 15 to 20 years to reach adulthood. Right now, century-old turtles presumably exist on this planet, and if you saw one, you might not even be able to recognize it.
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Let’s all do our part to keep not just the leatherback sea turtles alive, but all endangered or threatened animals alive and with us as long as possible.
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