Ocean Magic Adventure : Friendly humpbacks

This trip is at the top of my 5 best whale watching experiences. One individual as pointed out in the video (we call him all kinds of names) is very friendly. Being a young male, no doubt like any child, loves to play and clearly the same goes for a humpback whale kid! We didn't have to go far to find them. Today our awesome humpbacks were hanging out just mins from the inner harbour, 4 of them in total. They were split into 2 pairs. When we arrived, Bart / Cleaver / Split fin was off with a buddy and a sealion and started to act quite dynamically as a group. Before long, the animals all came over to the boat and hung out with us for quite sometime! They were checking us out for sure, they were under us and even what seemed to be waving at us! And when one of the zodiacs arrived, the animals went over to their boat and did the same, as if to not leave them out! The 3 year old after rolling on his side - blew his spray all over me, all over my camera and in fact I ended up inhaling whale breath!!!!! Yes I could taste it through the entire trip, first time and to me that is as good as a whale kiss can get! We headed towards Race Rocks, while stopping to watch the other 2 humpbacks, one of them being Barts mom! They were fluking and were interacting with one another but didn't seem too concerned with us as the last pair was.

On the way to the lighthouse, we were engaged by a small group of Dalls porpoises who rode along side of us momentarily. We arrived to Race Rocks to find our pinniped friends all lazing about, barking, and doing their usual territorial matches. On our way back to Victoria, we once again got an amazing glimpse of the Dalls porpoise who rode along side of us. As what I guess I would call a professional whale watcher, with several years of watching - this rates up at the very top... People on board that day will never forget it as long as they live. It was truly magic.