Too good to be true but excellent marketing play etc.
Just in from everyone-is-happy eco-paradise Byron Bay is the wildly comic photograph of a man riding in the mouth of a Humpback whale.
Every year, from May to November, the animals, which can hit fifty feet and then some, migrate five thousand clicks from their Antarctic hunting grounds to tropical waters in north Queensland where their babies are spat out.
And, earlier today, according to a local sunglass manufacturer, one lucky tourist got a ride inside the jaws of one of the happy mammals.
Per their IG Account,
WOW! Today in the bay… One minute you’re out for your morning swim, the next you’re inside a whale!
Before he realised what was happening, he’d been scooped up by the Humpback while another emerged in the back. Luckily for the swimmer, the whole thing was over quickly and he was freed.
He seemingly didn’t sustain any injuries nevertheless, it must have been a terrifying experience! He managed to make it back to shore, where he walked toward main beach. If anyone has any other photos, videos or further details about the swimmer, please get in touch!
Do you think true?
(When I contacted Grown Designs they said, yeah, all true, and were setting up interviews with a few TV channels and trying to source other photos and maybe vids.)
More as the story unfurls.
A very good marketing play by sunglass company etc.
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Just as well that the story is fake. Some rat bastard would have called the police complaining that a swimmer was endangering a whale by neither social distancing NOR wearing a face mask. Then his problems would have REALLY started.
If your business has ceased to exist amongst the ravages of code-it whale vomit is a commodity worth pursuing.
Try sperm whale, they always have.
Code it plan demic
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That’s how we used to travel during the Great Depression, see. You’d hitch a ride in the mouth of a whale up to Queensland for the winter, then Billy Hughes would pay a Chinaman to peddle you home on his Prime Ministerial penny farthing come October. You don’t see that sort of thing anymore though.
Geez Stab is on fire with their Gmed effort.
And we get this.
I can just imagine those Stab lames lining up to kiss Gabby’s shaved teabag, in hopes of getting an exclusive.
hahaha “shaved teabag” made me cough/laugh coffee!
He gives to the weak
Hi mum
All’s well
Havin’ a ball e’en
See ya’ll soon…
I was just out for a dip and wanted to say hi, had a whale of a time..
Brilliant!
Tourist?
Gotta be don’t it, happy wave, conceding defeat by Australia’s famously wild fauna.
Thought they’d all gone home.
I smell organic bullshit.
The humpback whale is closely related to YO’ MUMMA.
That guy is having a whale of a time! Ba,dom,tsssss