Meaningful moment between father, son and whale caught on camera

Finn Nelson will never forget that day his dad asked if he wanted to go see a whale in the wild.

Finn Nelson will never forget that day his dad asked if he wanted to go see a whale in the wild.

“I was like, 'OK,'” the nine-year-old smiles. “Let’s do it.”

So the boy and his dad — Joe Nelson — started searching along the shoreline, after hearing a pod of orcas had been spotted in the area.

“We were excited that we actually might see (a whale) for the first time,” Joe says. “Because we’d never seen them before.”

At the same time, a Iwan Lweylle was searching for the same whales, along with a boat full of tourists.

“I was not really focused on taking pictures,” the guide at Nature Trek Canada says.

Iwan did get a shot of harbour seals that day, but as you can see from his past pictures, Iwan’s seen countless orcas at work, along with grizzlies, wolves, and otters.