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Photo of a Lifetime

Freelance photographer gets shot of two whales breaching near Santa Cruz with a kayaker smack in between.

Photographer Paul Schraub captured this amazing picture off the Seabright State Beach shoreline. The image shows two humpback whales breaching next to a kayaker near Santa Cruz, CA on Thursday. Check out his photo gallery here.

You can watch the report from MSNBC News here.

Locally, check out this video of humpbacks spotted near that we featured a few months ago on Laguna Niguel Patch.

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