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A tourist from Genoa, Italy, captured this memorable scene with his GoPro camera. “I feel incredibly lucky to have witnessed such an amazing moment; we were just centimeters away from this magical creature.”
"It was as if it emerged from the water to greet us all," "This was so extraordinary, so unique, for a moment I was moved to tears." - Tourists said emotionally.
The gray whale, approximately 49 feet long, surfaced for about 10 seconds, allowing tourists to gently stroke its body. The calf swam peacefully beneath its mother.
The mother and calf whales dived down, and Andrea decided to follow them for a short while. He caught a glimpse of their eyes and enormous mouths; it was a fleeting moment of wonder.
Andrea photographs marine wildlife in Baja California, Mexico, where gray whales typically spend three months learning to swim along the Pacific coast after spawning.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that the gray whale population is threatened. Overfishing has significantly reduced the gray whale population in the region.
Ngoc Anh (According to DailyMail)
