1 / 3   A grand view was captured that a small boat is dwarfed besides a huge humpback whale as she swims alongside the boat in a bay of Australia. /VCG Photo

2 / 3   The whale is about 40 feet long. It curiously breached the water in order to take a look at the catamaran, which is less than half the size of the huge mammal at 16ft long. /VCG Photo

3 / 3   The Nature photographer Craig Parry used a drone to capture the unusual encounter as the boat was around 1.8 miles out of the Byron Bar, Australia. /VCG Photo