Hey everybody, Dylan here.

So a few weeks ago, we did an episode about animal encounters.

It was called face to face.

It was all about the times when me or my colleagues had stumbled across some unusual animal

and had an interesting encounter with it, something that just felt surprising or wondrous

or out of place.

I introduced you to Mr. Beans, this both incredibly hideous and incredibly cute possum, hanging

out on the beach, and now we get to hear some of your stories.

You called in and you shared some just amazing, amazing tales of animal encounters that you

have had.

Everywhere from the sea to the forest, so stick around and we are going to hear first

about a magical animal encounter out on the ocean.

More effectiveness.

Hi there, this is Jack originally from England.

And I want to tell you about my face to face experience.

So I worked as a well-watching tour guide in Iceland for a number of years, as you can

imagine when you are dealing with such intelligent and individual animals like whales and dolphins,

you'll see some really amazing things that I did, but there's one encounter which really

sticks in my mind.

So we were out on the sea and we were watching some minkeweils, you know, minkeweils are the

smallest of the baling whales, you know, your big typical blue whales, your humpback whales,

all these and the minkeweil, the smallest species, and there was a juvenile, and you know

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