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08-05-2016, 04:50 AM
The first up-close whale swims yield rad underwater footage in Western Australia
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The first face-to-face experience with a humpback whale off the west coast of Australia has been captured by an avid Instagram user.
According to WA Today (http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/they-looked-us-in-the-eye-was-first-humpback-whale-swimming-tour-a-success-20160804-gqldnd.html)three humpback whales got up close and personal with the first of many swimming with humpback whales encounter tours. Swimming with humpback whales has always been off limits on the west coast. But **t anymore! Although conditions apply.*
Ningaloo Whale Sharks tour guide Laura Stokes told WA Today (http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/they-looked-us-in-the-eye-was-first-humpback-whale-swimming-tour-a-success-20160804-gqldnd.html) that the humpback whales were hard to track down at first.*
"We lined ourselves up and got the group in and we couldn't see anything - we were just looking down and after floating in the water for about a minute, one of the customers pointed down and you could just see the white of [the whale's] fin. Then he just very slowly came up from the*deep, and came up very gently just to have a good look at us. He went by and two others came along and they circled us very slowly so everybody got a really good*look in that group." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/humpback-whale-swimming-experience/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The first face-to-face experience with a humpback whale off the west coast of Australia has been captured by an avid Instagram user.
According to WA Today (http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/they-looked-us-in-the-eye-was-first-humpback-whale-swimming-tour-a-success-20160804-gqldnd.html)three humpback whales got up close and personal with the first of many swimming with humpback whales encounter tours. Swimming with humpback whales has always been off limits on the west coast. But **t anymore! Although conditions apply.*
Ningaloo Whale Sharks tour guide Laura Stokes told WA Today (http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/they-looked-us-in-the-eye-was-first-humpback-whale-swimming-tour-a-success-20160804-gqldnd.html) that the humpback whales were hard to track down at first.*
"We lined ourselves up and got the group in and we couldn't see anything - we were just looking down and after floating in the water for about a minute, one of the customers pointed down and you could just see the white of [the whale's] fin. Then he just very slowly came up from the*deep, and came up very gently just to have a good look at us. He went by and two others came along and they circled us very slowly so everybody got a really good*look in that group." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/humpback-whale-swimming-experience/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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