LiQUiFY Magazine December 2014 | Page 44

A healthy humpback is a happy one, and they are capable of such incredible stunts like leaping above the water as if they were birds. So much is the force that this adult whale off Byron Bay, weighing well over 30 tonnes, not only blasts free of its aquatic realm, but it blasts a remora fish off its skin in the process // Photo Keith Christie - Instagram @keithchristiephotography