Adventure Trip With Blue Whales
A dream of mine, right from my early childhood has been to see a Blue Whale in the wild. These beautiful mammals are utterly vast and regarded to be the largest creatures to have ever graced the planet. Their hearts alone are the size of a reasonably sized car!
It was my belief that there numbers had dwindled to such an extent that your chances of seeing one were very slim indeed. However, BigAnimals.com claim to offer potential Blue Whale encounters. Admittedly there can never be any guarantees with this sort of thing but even the possibility is tantalising.
BigAnimals.com say on their site:
“Last year I was in an open 28 ft. dingy out of Loreto, Baja California. I had heard that Blue Whales had been spotted migrating to this area to feed on the upwelling of krill and to give birth. As if further confirmation was needed, rising out of the water directly in front of me were a pair of whale flukes that stretched nearly twenty feet across. As we crept in closer, the Blue Whale exhaled, generating a sound like an eighteen-wheeler locking up its brakes at fifty miles an hour.
The largest living things on Earth, with a small but slowly increasing world-wide population estimated at between 1000-3000 individuals, Blue Whales can reach nearly a hundred feet in length and weigh over a hundred tons. During last year’s expedition, a magnificent Blue Whale cruised effortlessly directly in front of our boat. It was a good eighty feet in length - longer than any whale I had ever seen. It’s not surprising when you realize that at birth they are twenty feet long and weigh in at two and a half tons.”
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