Imagine for a moment you are battleship engaged in some mortal cat and mouse game with an enemy submarine. Suddenly out of the deep blue gloom a long grey torpedo shaped object comes into view heading directly for midships. With no time for evasive maneuvers, counter measures are your only hope now. Closer and closer […]
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Some moments are beyond words, beyond description. In this moment the ocean’s murky gloom fell away as mother brought her newborn calf out of the deep water towards the light and the life-giving air above. In this moment I forgot I was hanging in a vast ocean far away from my everyday life. All that […]
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Twenty metres below us the pair just hung there on the bottom, motionless, a strange stillness in an ever moving ocean. A silhouette against the white sand, too far down to make out their detail, not so deep as to be hidden from our gaze. Almost as if they wanted our attention. It was their […]
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‘Play with me’, the whale suggested as he circled the girl closer and closer. How do you play with a creature 400 times your diminutive frame? ‘Play with me’, the whale intoned with a soundless expression and an oh so gentle nudge. How do you not panic, how do you trust being pushed through the […]
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‘Tag me if you can!’, a school yard taunt remembered from long ago. Yet here we are again playing that game of dare, chase and tag on a scale un-imagined from a landlocked childhood. Who would have thought we would encounter Humpback whales both adept and eager to play our boyhood game. We’d swim away […]
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