Day: October 14, 2024

Exactly like any group of people caught out in a rainstorm without an umbrella. And the way the mother protected her baby, so beautiful.💙

I love how Big chief is like “just go ladies” then when he goes last he’s all “eeeee”

Their expressions are priceless! It’s like the same look I would have if I was stuck outside having to run back in getting mud all over my feet and toes. So relatable.

It was a rare clear, crisp, cold, winter day offshore Mbotyi in Pondoland, Eastern Cape province, South Africa (formerly Transkei).

The seas were unusually calm that day on the Indian Ocean. That wouldn’t last long, soon returning to howling winds, whitecap waves, and giant swells! Did I mention it was cold – on land, at sea, and in the water?!

We are four SCUBA divers in a small “rubber duck” inflatable boat with two powerful 110 hp four stroke outboard motors. Clive is captain, Carlos is divemaster, and Levi is deckhand.

We are hunting for sardines. It is the annual world famous “South African Sardine Run”, a mass migration of pilchard fish up the east coast of Africa.

Actually, we are not interested in the sardines but rather the predators they attract. Hungry bottlenose and common dolphins herd the long line of small sardines into compact groups called “bait balls”. Once a ball is formed, a feeding frenzy ensues. Dolphins, sharks, and birds feast on the dense pack of small fish.

An ultralight airplane is overhead, looking for the action. Sightings are radioed to us and off we go at breakneck speed, hoping to record some real action. (Marius Nel, pilot)

Sadly, our six or seven hours daily on the water entail mostly waiting, waiting, and waiting a little longer until we find the elusive sardine bait ball.

Entertaining us while we wait are migrating humpback whales. Some are a mothers with calves. Some are males traveling in small groups.

This day, there were few sardine sightings but the whales seemed to be everywhere! An unexpected bonus!

This video shows a humpback whale mother cow swimming with a calf. It shows an adult 40 ton whale on its back, slapping both its left and right fins on the water, then leaping entirely out of the water!

It seems that never before has a recording been made of an adult humpback whale leaping entirely out of the water! A very rare event, indeed.

Dolphins and even Great White Sharks have been seen flying out of the water, but this is a first for an adult humpback whale!

Note: I sometimes have to remind my northern hemisphere friends that although it is summer in July and blisteringly hot and dry in parts of America and Europe, in South Africa it is exactly the opposite! It is dark, cold, winter now! Did I mention that it is cold?

A drone captured the incredible moment a whale pushed a paddleboard with its fin.

Maximiliano Jonas filmed the amazing footage off the coast of Puerto Madryn, Argentina, on August 31.

Maximiliano used a drone to capture the moment a Southern right whale approached a paddler board on which his friend Analia Giorgetti was sitting.

Incredibly, the whale gently pushed the paddleboard forward with one of its fins, in a video that has gone viral online.

A ski instructor sees a bear appear on the slope and stops all skiers descending in that direction.
What happened next you will not believe…!

Intalnire din nou pe partie cu un urs, ce de data asta s-o prelungit cam mult cu nazdravanul, curiosul, poate si pofticiosul la ce credea ca ar putea primi in urma unor posibile intalniri din trecut ale sale…
Video este facut de mine cu telefonul, pe partia Cocosul din Predeal.
La comentarii va voi raspunde in limita timpului ca a cam luat foc netul…, si eu am treaba peste zi, imi cer scuze.
Sa fim sanatosi!

A mother grizzly bear and her two cubs followed a hiker, and he kept his cell phone camera rolling during the entire encounter. Most people would be paralyzed by fear but not 74-year-old Geoffrey Glassner, who was visiting National Park in Alaska recently when the bears followed him.

Glassner remained calm the whole time. He hoped the grizzly family would turn off the trail, but they just kept coming. The cubs wouldn’t stop, and of course protective mother followed close behind. #InsideEdition

Heart-stopping video from Mexico shows the moment a black bear walks right up to a group of hikers and begins sniffing a woman’s hair. At one point, the woman even took out her cellphone to take a selfie with the animal, and the bear stands up next to her on its hind legs – clearly ready for a close-up.

not a smart move” ???? she was perfectly calm as everyone else was. brava to those girls!! were you there? she was incredible, and you’re judging her taking a selfie!! very rude!!!!

yelling and trying to intimidate the bear only works when there is a decent distance between the bear and humans. Once it gets this close, you don’t want to antagonize the animal, so these young women did the right thing—very cool under pressure!

Very brave lady.she stayed calm and didn’t get frightened.she is alive today just because of this Technic she applied

Octopuses are marine animals, that live and breath underwater, so at low tide one would expect them to be imprisoned in rocky pools. This extraordinary species found in Northern Australia is like no other Octopus, and land is no obstacle when hunting for Crabs.

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love the way they filmed this. Those close-up shots make it seem like the octopus is a sort of alien and the sound design just makes it better.