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San Francisco Bay Whale Sighting

By John Arndt | May 8, 2017 | San Francisco, CA |

Mel Ellison sent this shot with a note, "I managed to snap a photo of a humpback whale coming under the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday and thought your readers might be interested. The backdrop is Fort Point and the mega yacht Air as she was transiting out of the Bay. The buildings in the Avenues look close because of the compression of the high-powered lens I was using. We saw the the whale for just a few moments before it disappeared."

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