Many of our encounters with these beautiful creatures were very fleeting. Despite their size humpback whales are very fast and very agile when they want to be. It is often quite deceptive just how fast they really are moving. This young male, like many others was not interested in spending time lolling on the surface […]
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Like a puppy dog he rolled over and over with joyful abandon. You could almost feel the whale speak, ‘scratch my belly’. There was absolutely no doubt that he loved our attention and we all loved his even if it was a little scary and intimidating at times. Our experience with George off the island […]
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There were no belfries anywhere in sight but that did not stop the fruit eating, wing flapping, throat screeching foxlike locals from taking up residence in the tree next door. For the most part they were good neighbors, kept the music down, their garden tidy and were not partial to dropping burnouts in the street […]
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There is a blue out there in the open ocean that can’t be described. When that black water is filled with a luminous glow, the bright sunlight reflected by millions and millions of tiny particles suspended. That blue glow, softly caressing, beguiling, comforting me, encouraging me to follow, down and down and down to follow […]
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I’m not the only one drawn to the mystery of the nooks and crannies of the world. Just like me these paddlers want to know what’s inside Swallows Cave. Just like me the darkness piques their curiosity, leads them to explore the cracks and the fissures and the places the light can’t reach. A short […]
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