Offshore Sydney's most famous beach, surfers are sharing the ocean with some very large and very friendly visitors.
A Southern Right Whale and her calf are wowing crowds of locals and tourists with some dolphin-style behaviour.
Sydney residents enjoyed a rare spectacle when a mother Southern Right Whale and her calf swam up to a local city beach.
Surfers, keen to get close to the animals, swam around the mother and her child, who appeared not to mind their company.
Locals said the whales were seen about 50 m off Bondi Beach close to Sydney.
"They just paddled over and got off their boards and they were swimming with them," said a local surfer.
"We could basically touch them, it's crazy," said another.
Southern Right Whales can grow up to 18 m long and get their name from whalers who considered them to be the 'right' whales to hunt because they were slow swimmers and would float on the surface when killed.
They are listed as a vulnerable species.
Source: Reuters
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