A Holiday Romance – With A Whale.

These lucky tourists came closer to a pod of magni ficent grey whales than most people could ever imagine during a tour to the San Ignacio Lagoon,off the Baja Peninsula this March..

Natural curiosity brought one calf close enough to the boat for one of the tourists to bend down and kiss it on the nose. These shots show the moment one brave whale-watcher puckered to plant a kiss on one of the biggest oreheads around, that of a wild grey whale.

The encounter took place in the San Ignacio Lagoon off the Baja Peninsula in Mexico in March this year. A small group of whales was curious enough to investigate a small boat carrying American  and Canadian tourists that had drifted into the lagoon.