Photo of the Day

[Crewleader]

October 6, 2014

Whale of a Tail

Photograph by Shane Gross, National Geographic Your Shot

A sperm whale “waves goodbye” to Your Shot member Shane Gross, who had traveled to Sri Lanka’s east coast hoping to photograph blue whales. “While we did have some success with the blues, it was the sperm whales that stole the show,” he writes. He captured this picture toward the end of the six-day expedition. “It was late in the day and the sun was low as this small pod swam toward me, and I did my best to keep quiet so as to not frighten them. This one started to dive and I free dove right after her, trying to get as close to that massive tail as possible. I knew she might be the last whale I'd encounter on the trip, and indeed, she was.”

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Fabulous!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. What an amazing photograph...

Thank you, my dear Crewleader!

[Crewleader]

3. It is amazing Peggy

and where I was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

New Bedford, Mass is called the Whaling City and

the whales with it's history are found at the Whaling Musuem

here's a link: http://www.whalingmuseum.org/

[Tom Kitten]

4. It is indeed amazing

It makes me want to keep following it - at least until I'd remember I don't have gills!

So you were born in New Bedford? My mother's family came from Taunton -not too far away!

[Crewleader]

5. Yes I know of Taunton, just north of New Bedford

Yes born in New Bedford, raised in Mattapoisett, first small town of Cape Cod.

That's nice Tom Kitten your Mom's family from Massachusetts.

[alfredo]

6. Oh wow