When 10-year-old Sarah told her father all she wanted was to see some whales on their fishing trip, she could not have imagined the whale show that would unfold before her eyes, because as she would say later, “I didn’t know they could do that.”
Sean Russell and daughter Sarah were fishing for cod off Conception Bay in Newfoundland on Sunday when they discovered whales feeding nearby.
“I noticed the whales turned and came toward us,” Russell told Global News. “There was no jumping at all for like an hour.
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“They came right up to us, and we thought we may have spooked them or something, but they dove right under our boat,” Russell said in a follow-up video, according to CBC News.
Sarah picks up the story, saying in the same video, “Then they disappeared. Where are they?… Then, out of nowhere, they start shooting out, and they were spinning, two or three spins in the air—two of them.”
There were at least three more breaches captured in footage shot by Russell, who aptly called the video a “humpback ballet.”
“It was mind-blowing,” Sarah said. “I didn’t know they could do that.”
“To have two of them spin was absolutely amazing,” Sean added. “It was quite an experience I’ll never forget with her. She’s my fishing buddy.”
Sarah won’t soon forget it, either. The priceless expression on her face tells the story.
Photos courtesy of Sean Russell.