Watch: Humpback whale delivers ‘kiss of approval’ to catamaran
A humpback whale was documented “kissing” the bottom of a catamaran Sunday off Queensland, Australia, after surfacing between the sailboat’s pontoons.
“A pretty cool female just checking us out from the tunnel of Blue Dolphin and then giving us her kiss of approval,” Blue Dolphin Marine Tours stated on Facebook. (See video below.)
Capt. Peter Lynch told FTW Outdoors that passengers aboard the 33-foot sailboat “watched her gently going under the vessel and going vertically in there.”
Lynch added: “We were on the back steps looking in up along the tunnel.”
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The boat was stationary as the whale explored the cavern-like atmosphere and gently touched the vessel’s smooth surface with its mouth.
Blue Dolphin Marine Tours, based in Hervey Bay, is taking advantage of an abundance of humpback whales and on Saturday passengers were treated to a rare triple spyhop that also was caught on video.