The water in SoCal has been quite warm this summer reaching as high as 74 degrees F - maybe it's attracting species that it otherwise wouldn't.
I’m just so grateful that they started with the actual picture. So many articles today talk about something visual and never show it.
Whale sharks are majestic creatures. I was lucky enough to swim with them in the wild in the Philippines which has a lot of whale sharks in the Donsol area. What I really like about that place is that the locals don’t feed the whale sharks to attract them and so it’s a gamble to spot them but when you do then you can snorkel/dive with them in complete freedom and observe their natural interaction. It’s an amazing experience and I’d highly recommend that to anyone over the whale shark tourism that you get off Mexico.