this was on the news today, but doesn't say where in baja.
wonder if shari has heard about it.
Slapped in the face by a whale's tail: Girl gets a little too close to the action on boat trip
Video shot during whale watching trip off the coast of Baja California, Mexico
Shows moment that whale breaches and hits the girl in the face with its tailBob53 - 2-26-2014 at 08:56 PM
B*tch slapped! Next time she'll watch what she says.
[Edited on 2-27-2014 by Bob53]sancho - 2-27-2014 at 11:27 AM
Yrs. back, a sailboater off Baja, reported a whale, Humpback
I think, approached his boat, it obviously thinking
the bottom of the boat was another whale, humorous at
first, but after some
12 hrs. of wrangling, turning the boat 180 a few times,
the suitor gave up and swam off
No big deal!
Howard - 2-27-2014 at 02:42 PM
Upon edit:
The below is not what I wanted to send. You must cut and paste the entire video, not just the part in blue.
Collisions are not uncommon. But Sn Ignacio seems to generate fewer reports. The panga I was riding in got slapped hard and went sideways several
feet. It tore a chunk out of the gunnel about two feet long and 6" wide. The cap'n smacked his head on the motor and got knocked out cold. Lucky me I
was way up in the bow. It ain't knotts berry farm. But when a mama pushes her newborn over to be petted the scales tip back the other way.bajabuddha - 2-27-2014 at 04:58 PM
This was no Ballena Gris in a bay; this was definitely a humpie on what looks like open waters, and he wuz doin' The Nasty to the boat; good thing he
didn't punch a hole in the bottom: then you'd really see Mobey's Dick!!! DavidE - 2-27-2014 at 05:33 PM
Peeza Cake!
Dangle a pair of floats over the transom and find out which way he swings.freediverbrian - 2-27-2014 at 06:53 PM
If that happed in Cali the captain and boat would be in big trouble for being too close to whales . San Diego just closed a beach to protect seals
that are not endangered
Much nicer humpback
Whale-ista - 2-27-2014 at 08:47 PM
This video shows a whale being much better behaved:
