Any Saturday in Barkley Sound is spectacular but add a close up whale encounter beside your own dock and it doesn’t get any better.

That’s what happened to Peter Mieras and his wife Kathy Johnson Nov. 8.

And it’s their second humpback whale tale in exactly a year.

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“We were sitting inside looking out the window and saw something in the water so I went out and as I come down the ramp the whale becomes visible and I go like oh my gosh this is a whale,” Mieras told CHEK News.

It happened outside their lodge in Rainy Bat near Bamfield where run Rendezvous Dive Adventures.

“And so I go ‘Oh my gosh what is happening?’ so without even thinking about anything I plunk myself down at the edge of the dock, stick my arm as far as I could into the water with the camera, sort of gauging if and when the whale would be coming close, I may or may not get some footage. Well, it came basically under my hand,” added Mieras.

The scene repeated itself over and over for about 20 minutes as the huge whale swam back and forth in front of their dock.

It then left and came back for another 20 minute encore.

Peter ran back and forth too, later posting this video with Benny Hill-type music in the background YouTube.

“It was cool. It’s always a really cool thing when you get that close to a whale. Especially, I mean you’re not allowed to be this close to marine mammals so when they come to you on your dock it’s a pretty darned cool thing,” said Johnson.

“Crazy, because the same thing happened to us almost to the day a year ago,” added Mieras.

CHEK News covered the story after Peter accidentally dropped a 360 degree camera into the water off his dock.

It continued to record video and captured an incredible scene as a humpback whale burst through a bait ball as it was feeding.

The video has been seen around the world.

Now a year later almost to the day, another humpback encounter happened right off his own dock in Barkley Sound.

So you think it knew that you were there he was asked.

“Oh yeah. You can see as it was coming by it retracted its pectoral fin because my hand and my little camera were sticking out in the water and I think it was very much aware of like not wanting to be too close or hitting us,” he said.

Mieras says in 20 years of living in Barkley Sound whales have only got that close a handful of times.