[nickcarraway]

[null and void]

Trivial. (Says the guy who just finished Moby Dick!)

[driftdiver]

Saw a guy kayak fishing in the swamp. He pulled up a float and a BIG aligator tried to taste his arm.

That would be scary. The whale isnt gonna hurt you.

[TexasCajun]

In his post johnnyvanuck said that he set out to find the whale that had been reportedly feeding in English Bay over the last week.

...not like it was an accidental encounter.

[CGASMIA68]

Someone took the vid.
Should it not read”Kayaker and photographer associate have close encounter”.

[V_TWIN]

This is the spear fisherman thread all over again. You are in their environment, their world, and you roll the dice when you’re in it.

[leaning conservative]

Ping

[fwdude]

Micro-aggression! Micro-aggression! Micro-aggression!

[dainbramaged]

One summer morning about 10 miles north of Juneau, the wife and I anchored in 15 fathoms of saltchuck fishing for halibut when a big "whoosh" caught our attention - it was a humpback about 50 feet off our beam heading straight for our 17 footer.
No motor was running so we banged on the hull and the beast dove under the boat in the real clear water and proceeded to snag my bait - the reel went off like a siren and I yanked it from the rod holder - for a minute I had a 40 ton whale on my line, but luckily it slid off its fluke and no harm done. The Penn 49 reel was never the same after that incident.
It could have been worse if he hooked up with our anchor line, like a Nantucket sleigh ride.

[Mr. K]

from underwater, kayaers look like their favorite food- seals and walruses

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He is about to be prosecuted under international law. He just doesn’t know it yet.

[cherry]

its the time of year to spot whales and I’m sure him and his buddy who is filming deliberately got close to make it look so “scary”...