California SUP surfer receives whale escort

[billie_morini]

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/168 ... on+paddle/

Complete story and cool photos at link above. Snippet provided below.

What Jodie Nelson could not have known was that a 30-foot minke whale would swim alongside her 14-foot board and accompany the surfer as she stood and paddled for two of those nine hours....

[surfitch]

damn, only whales i've seen are humpbacks and they stay like 2 miles from shore.