For surfers in the northern hemisphere, summer means shedding neoprene, longer days, and (hopefully) southern hemi swell in the west and hurricane swell in the east. For blue whales, warmer water temperatures mean it’s time to head north to feed.
Earlier this month, San Diego-based photographer Domenic Biagini captured a blue whale and her calf in transit about four miles off the coast of La Jolla. The pair encountered a pod of bottlenose dolphins and began to interact with each other in a way Biagini says he’d never seen before.
“It was really cool,” Biagini told The San Diego Union-Tribune. “That’s a species interaction I’ve never seen. I’ve seen common dolphins and Pacific white-sided dolphins and even humpback whales and blue whales side by side but never bottlenose dolphins and blue whales interacting.”
Even as a photographer who goes whale watching nearly every day, Biagini was amazed by what he captured.
“It’s pretty hard to even put into words,” he said.
