Watch ‘curious’ sea creature hang out with jet skiers in Australia. ‘Magic encounter’

Moira Ritter
Wed, August 23, 2023 

Photo by Sean on Unsplash

Linda Reynolds and Vicki Jenkins were out on a Jet Ski south of Australia’s Gold Coast when they got a surprising visit from a huge creature.

A massive humpback whale swam up to the women, and it stayed for about an hour, Reynolds said in an Aug. 20 Instagram post.

“This humpback just couldn’t leave us alone,” Reynolds wrote in a comment on her post. “He was so curious and so gentle. He came back to the ski, over and over and over again. One of the best days of my life.”

“It was a truly beautiful and breathtaking encounter. He hung around for over an hour,” she wrote in another comment. “I’m exhausted tonight. Mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally.

A video shows the whale bobbing in and out of the ocean just feet in front of the ski.

“A dream came true for me today,” Reynolds captioned the video.

As Reynolds and Jenkins “played” with the creature, a photographer happened to catch their encounter on a drone.

“Just on time to capture this magic encounter with enormous humpback whale connecting and playing with this two lucky girls,” Wavedraline wrote on Instagram.

“The whale approached by itself and had energy to play and connect with these two people, this happens very rarely, so if you are sailing and a whale approaches you should turn off your engine and let the whale take its course. In this case the whale decided to play because did not feel disturbed,” the account said.

Instagram users shared their excitement about the interactions on Reynolds’ post.

“So incredible,” one person commented on the video. “Truly breathtaking.”

“Just amazing, I can only imagine how special this was,” another person wrote.

“So very beautiful Linda,” a third person commented. “An absolutely incredible interaction.”

Gold Coast is on Australia’s east coast, about 520 miles northeast of Sydney.