Wildlife Wednesday: A Blue Whale Off Long Beach
Wildlife Wednesday // May 14th, 2025
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This Week in the Wild
Last year, I went whale watching off Long Beach with pretty low expectations. Maybe we’d catch a few dolphins, maybe not. But a couple hours into the trip, everything changed.
Off in the distance, something surfaced - massive and almost completely silent aside from the whoosh of breath. A blue whale. Its back kept rising, stretching farther than I’d ever realized they could. A tiny dorsal fin sat way back near the tail. It barely broke the surface before slipping under again.
While we were all still trying to process it, the tour guide got on the mic and said fewer than 1% of people ever get to see one in the wild. I believe it. It didn’t feel real. Just quiet, surreal, and over way too fast.
It still might be the rarest wildlife moment I’ve had.
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