Breaching Gallery

Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) two breaching in evening light, Moray Firth

Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) two breaching in evening light, Moray Firth, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK, August, sequence 2/2. Photographer quote: A day of overcast cloud cleared in the last ten minutes of sunset spilling golden light through a small gap between the cloud base and hill top. A group of dolphins seized the moment and performed a perfect synchronized leap in the low warm sunlight. And I smiled, sighed with relief, and went home happy! Did you know? The bottle nose dolphins in the Moray Firth are said to be worth more than £4m to the Inverness economy through tourism revenue

Humpback Whale - breaching female whale in front of Fraser Islands coast

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Humpback Whale - breaching female whale in front of Fraser Island's coast
Hervey Bay Marine Park, Queensland, Australia
Megaptera novaeangliae
Steffen & Alexandra Sailer
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North Pacific humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae kuzira) breaching at sunset, Kupreanof Island

North Pacific humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae kuzira) breaching at sunset, Kupreanof Island, Frederick Sound, Alaska, USA, July

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