Photographer Shares 'Most Incredible Wildlife Encounter' With Sharks In A Wave

He shares some absolutely gorgeous work on his Instagram account and his website, and while it's not nearly all animals, you also can't really avoid them when you're taking pics in Australia. That continent just has some of the most fascinating and different wildlife, and it's all just so picture-worthy.

But the day he had what he called "one of the most incredible wildlife encounters," Scott was just kind of hanging out on the beach with his drone when a couple of sharks decided to put on a show.

Then, he caught the sharks swimming through the waves rolling in toward shore, as if they were surfing.

"I was really surprised," he told The Dodo. "I’ve seen similar smaller encounters go viral on the internet but I had never witnessed something firsthand. I’ve been told how lucky I am to have witnessed it because it is quite rare."

It was a surreal encounter, to be sure. Sharks are not the first creature that comes to mind when you think of animals surfing along in waves. It was, in fact, so surreal that after he posted a couple of pics on his Instagram, several people questioned whether he had faked the encounter altogether.

And he posted pics of the whole encounter on his Instagram just to prove it.

"I’ve had a lot of people try and tell me the shot was fake but I hope this sets the record straight," he wrote in his post. "I’ve never shared all these images before."

"They didn’t stay in the waves for too long, maybe a few minutes, so I was really lucky to get the photo when I did," he told The Dodo. "There was a lot going on so I was frantically trying to photograph them from every angle."

It was a fleeting moment, and one that he hoped would repeat that day to no avail. "I stayed and waited for a further 2 hours and did not see them in that close again," he told Bored Panda.

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h/t: The Dodo