# @chel.sea.pear on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CQWkgBkDcjE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31302168-chelseapear-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/cce8034019.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-06-20T18:50:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CHELSEA BRADLEY (@chelsearhane) — https://gondola.cc/chelsearhane

## Caption

🚨EPIC ALERT🚨Yesterday, we spent 5 hours with the most incredible blue whales - stick with me on the caption, we saw them perform so many rare behaviors! I love this photo & the experience, but I’m so sick of Instagram compressing & ruining photos - you should see this beaut on my phone or computer 😫

First, Blake spotted a blue whale who quickly came over & mugged us for 30 minutes. The incredible visibility let us watch him circle, hang out underneath & the best was when he turned on his side, stopped swimming & just stared up at us 😍 he was a fan of surfacing where we weren’t looking & waiting a few seconds to blow - scaring the shit out of us 🤣 then he swam off a bit, straight into a balloon 🤬 after getting the balloon, we spotted what looked like several breaching humpbacks - big black things high in the sky 🙌

We rushed over, and 🤯 were shocked - they were 6 blue whales breaching, lunging & RACING & breaching (not full body, of course) through the water - but of course they chilled out once we stopped and grabbed cameras. 

For the next 4 hours (and they’re probably still doing it) we got to witness what many never have or will - breaching, spy hopping, rolling around & lunge feeding. These behaviors are not typical of blue whales because they are so massive (the largest animals to ever roam Earth) 

Sure, humpbacks do this and we love it, but I just can’t put into words how rare and incredible this was. We lost count of the spy hops and am pretty sure we witnessed a couple threesomes 🙈

We have 1,000+ photos and 5 hours of video to go through - follow blake.chill for epic GoPro footage, to come. 

Wish we were out there again today, but we are off to celebrate Father’s Day with the Padres. 

#bluewhalewatching #bluewhaletattoo #bluewhale #natgeoyourshotphotographer #canonphotography #whales #spyhopping #oceanside #california #sosandiego #visitcalifornia #whales #ocean #oceanphotography #junegloom #naturephotography

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## Tags

oceanside, ocean, whales, spyhopping, sosandiego, bluewhalewatching, naturephotography, visitcalifornia, natgeoyourshotphotographer, junegloom, california, bluewhaletattoo, bluewhale, oceanphotography, canonphotography

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