A Giant Whale Leaps Out Of Water In Front Of Surprised Tourists

Look there in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a 20-tonne humpback whale surprising tourists just a few metres from their boat in Sydney's Bondi Beach! Via: Sharebly

01
Tourists on a Go Whale Watching cruise at Sydney’s Bondi beach definitely got their money’s worth during an excursion on the Australian waters.

via John Goodridge via The Science News Reporter

It's not every day that you get to witness a majestic 20-to humpback whale do a breach just yards away from your tour boat.
Advertisement
02
And wildlife photographer John Goodridge was at the right place at the right time to capture the event on camera.

via John Goodridge to Science News Reporter

Goodridge, a visitor from the United Kingdom, commented what he witnessed that day was "one of the most spectacular breaches he had ever seen" although he was also a little frightened as the giant whale almost seemed to swamp the boat they were on. Goodridge estimates that around 30 whale breaches where recorded that trip: "The tourists picked a great day for it, with some thirty whale breaches recorded in just a little over an hour. The whales were really playful. Sometimes you can sit out there and not even see one, so we were really lucky." he said in an interview to the Daily Mail
03
To give you a better idea of how close it was, here’s the event from another angle.

via John Goodridge To Science News Reporter

Just imagine how simultaneously scary and exciting seeing this is in person!

For a weekly dose of animal-themed community challenges - Subscribe to our Newsletter!

Can't get enough of ICanHasCheezburger? Find us on Instagram!

Also From I Can Has Cheezburger?

Trending Now

24-year-old who was catsitting little sister's unspayed $2,500 Maine Coon for a week suddenly refuses to return the cat to her sister who's had her for 10 years, claiming the feline was malnourished: 'My dad said should get cops involved'

25 of the Funniest and Freshest Feline Tweets to Fill Your Week With Pawsitivity (April 27, 2025)

'[For] more than a year, I slept outside with her every night': Kind man saves a lion cub who was abandoned by her mother, hand-raises her himself for 10 years and creates an unbreakable bond with her

Woman rescues the tiniest kitten off of the streets, after noticing he isn't growing she discovers he's a dwarf cat, goes viral: 'He's gonna be a tiny cat furever!'

Woman adopts a meowjestic black cat that was being given away for "free" because she didn't like kids, the next day, she gets told the kids miss the cat and want it back, but no one shows up to take her

A Giant Whale Leaps Out Of Water In Front Of Surprised Tourists

Tourists on a Go Whale Watching cruise at Sydney’s Bondi beach definitely got their money’s worth during an excursion on the Australian waters.

And wildlife photographer John Goodridge was at the right place at the right time to capture the event on camera.

To give you a better idea of how close it was, here’s the event from another angle.

Tags