‘Play with me’, the whale suggested as he circled the girl closer and closer.
\nHow do you play with a creature 400 times your diminutive frame?<\/p>\n
‘Play with me’, the whale intoned with a soundless expression and an oh so gentle nudge.
\nHow do you not panic, how do you trust being pushed through the water by a 25 tonne stranger?<\/p>\n
‘Play with me’, the whale delighted as they parried to and fro.
\nHow can you not be moved to your core by a being both so alien and so equal?<\/p>\n
‘Play with me’, the whale bemoaned as he followed her back to the boat.
\nHow can you leave such a beautiful moment? You can’t, it has changed you, will be forever with you.<\/p>\n
I’m sure George (the whale) and Jasmine (the girl) had a thing going on.<\/p>\n
We all had an extraordinary time with George that day, a day we will treasure forever.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Jasmine and the Whale’ 1\/1000s f\/7.1 ISO160 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘Play with me’, the whale suggested as he circled the girl closer and closer. How do you play with a creature 400 times your diminutive frame? ‘Play with me’, the whale intoned with a soundless expression and an oh so gentle nudge. How do you not panic, how do you trust being pushed through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1644,1660,1645,1646,1659,1643,1639,70,192,1641,29,1642,1638,1640],"class_list":["post-6183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cetacean","tag-george","tag-gratitude","tag-humpback","tag-jasmine","tag-kingdomoftonga","tag-megapteranovaeangliae","tag-ocean","tag-swimming","tag-tonga","tag-travel","tag-vavau","tag-whale","tag-whalewatching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}