Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

Humpback Whale Showing Off

The kayakers must of crapped their pants... Don D.

Brian C. - On Thu, Sep 1, 2016

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bahmer

Truly beautiful. I was watching humpbacks calving in Hawaii a few years back and they are both interesting as well as very intelligent creatures,

mongo Loc: TEXAS

Fascinating video Don. I bet that was absolutely thrilling to see so close.
I did notice the water was turning a little brown around those kayaks!

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robmull Loc: florida

Really great video, Don. What a VERY grateful whale. Animals are strange, but some actually seem to have a cognisance of humans providing help. I had put a chain-link fence in my backyard in a few days, and I must have blocked an opossum trail. A morning after I'd put the fence up, I noticed a rather large {10 lb.?} something that seemed to be jammed under the bottom of my fence. I got closer, and saw it was an opossum, firmly stuck between the ground and the pointed bottom of the wire fence. I've seen opossum teeth before {really big and sharp, as is their normal wild attitude}, and although I thought it may be dead, I got some heavy-duty gloves to see if I could hand-pry it out. Very carefully I held the opossum's back, realized that he/she was barely clinging to life, and I spent the next half hour trying to un-jam it without ending-up with a very dangerous wild animal bite. I did, and eventually freed the opossum, and let him/her waddle away on the outside of the fence. The opossum got about 10 feet away, looked back at me, nodded it's head, and I could swear he/she winked at me in appreciation, waddled away, and never to be seen again. I'll never forget that fast look of total gratitude. Interesting!!! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRUMP!!!

Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

Glade you got her/him out... Don D.

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robmull Loc: florida

Yes, it was rather thrilling, Don. And speaking of opossum's, I had two big Tibetan Mastiffs {120 lbs. and about 90 lbs., sisters from the same liter} awhile back, {1983?}, and I had let them out into my chain-linked fenced back yard, overlooking a pond. Well, an opossum had just come from behind the bushes in the yard, and the two dogs charged the strange little {12 lb.?] creature like greased lightning. As I tried to stop the possibly deadly encounter, the opossum just kept waddling, seemingly unconcerned, stopped for just a moment, turned his/her face to face my dogs, and the wild {almost wolverine} look on the opossum's face, the totally wild, now glaring eyes, the size of the huge gleaming white teeth {and suddenly snarling attitude}, made both my Mastiff's re-consider the entire situation. They skidded to a stop in unison, turned around, and rather quickly decided that opossum hunting was not on their immediate list of things-to-do. Interesting. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRUMP!!!