I had seen the image that accompanies this blog post before, but a little searching turned up the story that goes along with it…
…suddenly right in front of our boat the water exploded up and an enormous whiskered face launched up out of the water. He was so close that he put a front flipper up against the kayak and I could smell his breath. Walrus are HUGE, and those tusks are not small either! He dipped back under the water and I thought he was going to come up from under us and try tip us over.
This is an old blog post, from 2005, but the picture gives a great idea of how large a walrus is compared to a low-riding sea kayak. This encounter must have been frightening indeed.
Here’s the link to the original post, at Travelblog.org:
Never Mind The Polar Bears, Beware of the Walrus!