Pod of over 60 Humpback Whales in Cape Town, South Africa | 4K Drone Video

[@christinedonnelly4195]

Love the rainbows in their sprays...a truly beautiful video

[@smoak888]

how does this video not have a million views! awesome work! very inspirational!

[@tobydives73]

As scuba diver and also copter pilot this is like winning the lottery to me! Awesome footage and many thanks for sharing!

[@duncansouchon9183]

Thanks for this, we were out kayaking and did not see the full pod (they were further out toward Robben Island), but a young whale ventured out to the coast and did a full breach out the water near our boats. Once in a lifetime experience.

[@ApertureApex]

This is so beautiful, I want this played at my funeral

[@TheCzechthomas]

Hi Kieran, just to let you know - you absolutely made my day today :) what an amazing video. you are a star :) 🌟🌟🌟

[@TheAvanas]

I love the seals playing along!

[@amandawatson5931]

Stunning footage. Thanks for not flying too close and disturbing them.

[@michelejankelow617]

Completely and utterly magnificent!

[@81uhuru]

My wife and I saw this! Thanks for the upload!

[@AlisonBeere]

What a wonderful sight. Thanks for sharing here!

[@TerriLevin]

Amazing thanks for sharing. It was difficult to see what was going on out there from the beachfront . Incredible.

[@billidp]

This is MAGNIFICENT! Thanks for sharing

[@My10centsWorth]

BEAUTIFUL! And lovely music you chose as the soundtrack.

[@harmvzon]

Ha! This is insane. I was in a Zodiac boat and we were kinda trapped inside this pod. We turned of the motor when we saw the first and then so many extra came. Finally when the pod was away we turned on our engine again and went back to the shore. It was amazing and terrifying at the same time. So lucky to find this footage.

[@womenoftheworldunitedagain3691]

This is why it's important to protect our oceans and it's inhabitants ~ what would life be like with both of them gone!

[@ObzArmchair]

Awesome footage! Soooooooooo beautiful! Wish I can see it in real.. Well done!

[@CapeTown_Guy3]

Awesome! The song choice also great!

[@jennifercherry4676]

spectacular footage,. what an amazing video to see. Thanks so much for sharing xx

[@christinetylcoat7675]

Thanks for sharing, we saw this from Seapoint and had no idea but it just looked beautiful ;) however this veiw is just spectacular!!!!!

[@LuisaPlantierMartins]

AMAZING FOOTAGE!!! Made my night!!!

[@danshanks5524]

Absolutely beautiful! This is the best footage I've ever seen. Nice work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@ProfessionalWildChild]

AMAZING

[@ThatCapeTownGuy]

so cool!! great capture

[@celestelockitch9066]

Awesome! We have seen a school of dolphins and that is also amazing!

[@yarishasingh4164]

Amazing and so beautiful. Thank you

[@mosessho]

that is so beautifully done well done shot! super

[@BlackBarney]

Time to break out the harpoons! My lamps are running low...

[@CarylWestmore]

Brilliant and uplifts my heart!

[@TheKty13]

Magnifiques images !!

[@alastairrohrer4751]

Amazing footage!

[@brettconradie323]

Stunning footage :)

[@yusufvanderfort2937]

cape town is awesome in everyway:) :) :)

[@marylyons9969]

beautiful

[@mathiassmith9299]

Touching to the heart....

[@6Tulumbat]

This is so stunning, Kieran -- thank you! May I share on our Tamboerskloof guesthouse Facebook page? Would be great!

[@kdonnellyza]

Go ahead! As long as it stays on this channel :)

[@johnfranke3399]

Bro. . . wow. Thank you

[@RaineCarosin]

Brill! Awesome! More!

[@LukeMaximoBell1]

Very cool! I've still never managed to film a whale with my drone 😭

[@kdonnellyza]

Luke Maximo Bell thanks boy! Means a lot

[@warrenmoses7370]

beautiful bud.

[@ekiswoes]

Hi Kieran. Brilliant video. Just a pity that youtube's codec pixelates very busy ocean shots. I made a video last week of surfers with the drone, and the finished video file was crisp and detailed, but once uploaded, youtube does something with it. THinking of rather uploading my videos to vimeo, it's just that cost tho....

[@kdonnellyza]

Martin Coetzee thanks Martin. It is a pity, but I don't think it detracts too much from the spectacle of the content. Vimeo is certainly a viable option in terms of compression but the social reach just isn't the same.

[@feltseragi]

Fantasztikus!

[@Nellis0]

Awesome!

[@martinwepener9041]

Saw some of them from our Sea Point flat.

[@JPOG7TV]

Didn't know so many large whales would be together.

[@robsimpson2364]

Great video Kieran. Did you use a filter? Which one? Do you mind sharing what editing software are you using?

[@kdonnellyza]

Hi Rob, no filter, just made sure the sun wasn't blowing out any of the shots. I used Adobe Premiere Pro CC for this and for all my other edits - sometimes I run GoPro footage through GoPro Studio to remove the fisheye (if I need it to look more classy), and I often use Adobe After Effects CC for more advanced transitions, keyframing or animations than Premiere allows you to do. For instance, the animation that I used for the Sky Reel logo at the end of this video was done in After Effects.

[@ThatCapeTownGuy]

What are those smaller things swimming around the Whales?

[@kdonnellyza]

Cape Town Guy seals!

[@ThatCapeTownGuy]

Kieran Donnelly I thought so!

[@kershalramchurren5538]

Well done...

[@biagiovioli6394]

Ammmmazing!!!!!!!!!!

[@James-fm6qv]

Nice video Kieran - could you please tell me roughly what time it was recorded? I'm interested to see if I can correlate your video with satellite imagery I have of the area on 26 Nov. Thanks!

[@kdonnellyza]

James M I was flying from about 4:33 to 5:01pm CAT

[@kdonnellyza]

I would love to see some of that if you get anything! Drop me an email at [e-mail] if you do!

[@karlotten6726]

Good job! What drone do you have exactly? What range can you get in meters?

[@kdonnellyza]

Matthew Beckett it's a Phantom 4. This was 1900m out from shore and every now and then I would lose signal, but theoretically in an open area with no electromagnetic interference you should get 5km line of sight range

[@kyleyroos]

Great track also - who/ what is it?

[@kdonnellyza]

In the description :)

[@davidteren]

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[@michaelsangiorgio1861]

Looks idyllic......until you realise they are only a short distance away from the Moullie Point pump station from which the City of Cape Town is allowing millions of litres of untreated sewage to be pumped into Table Bay via a pipe which discharges a few hundred meters off shore.

[@angeljones6170]

Hi Kieran - we'd love to make mention of your video in our Homecoming Revolution newsletter (going out on Wed) - it would still be your youtube channel, but it would be embedded into our webpage - could that work?

[@kdonnellyza]

Angel Jones I'm happy with that! Thank you

[@kdonnellyza]

Angel Jones if you could link Sky Reel too that would be great. Just the website address will do: www.skyreel.co.za

[@angeljones6170]

THANKS. And well done - it's going to make a lot of South Africans abroad homesickness for home x

[@angeljones6170]

Sure thing

[@RicardodeWaal]

Lets go swimming

[@zafarmonier2927]

I saw them from llandudno, thought they were orcas until I saw this video

[@saritlevin5368]

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[@danebezuidenhout628]

Great video :-) Pity they probably had to swim through the raw sewage pumped into the sea near there :-(

[@richardsteinhaus2475]

I only counted 53 whales. Reported for misleading title.

[@follymudau5723]

this is all the product of evolution apparently.

[@sonyashotinthefoot8764]

Excellent, well done. Time to start torpedoing the Japanese whaling ships "Just for the science of it". LOL

[@jerrywong6347]

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