This was taken by a guy in SB.
Two friendly humpback whales watch us for an hour less than a mile from Santa Barbara on April 4th, 2008. A fluke of a whale story unfolded a humpback whale and his friend floated, spouted, twirled, dove, spied, and came nose to nose with the whale watchers. We were on Captain Don's catamaran boat, "Speed Twin" based on Stearns Wharf. The captain put the trip in his top 5 with 15 years of piloting. The marine biologist on board was stumped by the whales behavior. Killer whales had killed a gray whale two days before and 15 had been seen the day before our trip. He hypothesized that they were sticking close to our big boat for safety, although humpbacks are curious too. It was magical as the whale, just a couple feet away from the boat, vertically treaded water with its giant fins as it raised its head to gaze at us in mutual curiosity. If the boat were lower to the ground we could have pet his barnacled nose.
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