A Whale’s Tale

Cherry Hill resident Steve Wallace and his dad were out fishing at the north end of Ocean City when they saw a pod of dolphins, then a whirling circling school of bunker fish, which Steve says was a precursor to the big moment when a humpback whale breached. “So I just knew to focus the camera on that group of fish – at the very least the dolphins are going to go crazy – and then a huge humpback whale breaches out of the group of bunker fish,” he said. “It’s like National Geographic right in front of your eyes,” Steve said the whale was just 30 yards away from the boat and just a mile off the beach.