GrindTV reports that Jodie Nelson had a surprise visitor on a nine-hour paddle from Catalina Island to Dana Point, which the California surfer made in support of breast cancer research. A 30-foot minke whale rode alongside her for two hours.

An answer to prayer, perhaps? At the start of the journey, Nelson and her crew prayed that “God would reveal his beauty and creation and nature, and allow me to endure this long trek.”