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Whale-Spot: Dolphin Day
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Friday, 6 September 2013. The coastal towns of Massachusetts were at the heart of the 19th century American whaling industry and, because America was the biggest participant in the trade, most of the wealth gained from whaling accrued there. The great Quaker whaling families (Folger, Macy, Starbuck etc.) were based in Nantucket but Boston was the financial capital where they invested their money and also where colleges and churches were founded on whale oil. Seasons vary, but my own observation is that w...
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Whale-Spot: Postscript
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013. Back on dry land, I am still reading Philip Hoare's " Leviathan. And I heard his new book, "The Sea Inside". Being read aloud as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. My wife bought me a copy as soon as it came out and it topped the Guardian's Best Seller list this month. I'm going to take it to Maine with me next week. If you are at all interested in whales, or just love a good read, you have to read Philip Hoare. The Whipple Museum is about the Histrory of Science. I bet they h...
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Whale-Spot: May 2013
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Thursday, 16 May 2013. Our first cetacean was a little harbour porpoise. I used to see these in Southampton water when I was learning to sail in the 1960s. It was soon followed by a pod of white-sided dolphins. (The only ones I have ever seen). Scanning the boats we started to see (or imagine? Lumpy waves that faded into the gathering fog banks. Then there was an audible. Posted by Hanna and Jim Stevenson. Whalewatch from Eastport, Maine. This page is from a visit to Maine in August 2012. It's not quite ...
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Stream of Dreams: Chasing Rainbows
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You can see some of the pictures for this blog in a. Wednesday, 12 August 2015. The farm-bred American rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is not so picky and it grows very quickly, like a battery hen. That's why rainbows are the fish of choice for stocking lowland waters. Today I went chasing rainbows at Grafham Water. It didn't start well. Boat anglers off the harbour at Perry. I moved round to the opposite shore where the fishing boats are kept. There is a cafe and bar there, so, if the weather wo...
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Whale-Spot: June 2013
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Saturday, 8 June 2013. Actually, it takes two days to get to the whale-watch location from here, but only one day to come back. Now we have the extra care in place for my son, it looks like we have "All Systems Go" for next month. The story below is a version of the one I sent to the magazine. Three weeks later I bumped into a lady who had lived in Stotfold since childhood. She remembered going to the mill for chicken feed and reaching high above her head to pull a long rope that rang a bell in order...
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Stream of Dreams: Reservoir dog-days
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You can see some of the pictures for this blog in a. Sunday, 13 April 2014. Despite all that, I have not used a boat for several years, probably because I like to go walk-about or at least stand up all the time. I just cannot get used to the idea of fly-fishing while sitting down and anyway, I'm a skin-flint. That's all to come this year. I have only been out twice so far. My first session in March was from the harbour arm when I found that the only way to take fish was on a sinking line with a green lur...
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Whale-Spot: September 2013
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Friday, 6 September 2013. The coastal towns of Massachusetts were at the heart of the 19th century American whaling industry and, because America was the biggest participant in the trade, most of the wealth gained from whaling accrued there. The great Quaker whaling families (Folger, Macy, Starbuck etc.) were based in Nantucket but Boston was the financial capital where they invested their money and also where colleges and churches were founded on whale oil. Seasons vary, but my own observation is that w...
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Whale-Spot: Media Summary
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Wednesday, 24 July 2013. How do you measure an Arctic day? Not in hours, minutes and seconds surely? In months and weeks? Or perhaps in the slow, steady rhythm of a whale's heart-beat? My prize for winning a BBC Wildlife. Story competition was to take part in an Earthwatch. Andenes is the flat "ness" or point at the north end of the island of Andøya; 300 miles into the Arctic Circle off the top-left corner of Norway. Neither Google Earth or the maps that bought showed detail of the area around our li...
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Whale-Spot: July 2013
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Wednesday, 24 July 2013. How do you measure an Arctic day? Not in hours, minutes and seconds surely? In months and weeks? Or perhaps in the slow, steady rhythm of a whale's heart-beat? My prize for winning a BBC Wildlife. Story competition was to take part in an Earthwatch. Andenes is the flat "ness" or point at the north end of the island of Andøya; 300 miles into the Arctic Circle off the top-left corner of Norway. Neither Google Earth or the maps that bought showed detail of the area around our li...
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Whale-Spot: Monochrome
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Saturday, 20 July 2013. I take quite a few black-and-white pictures because I think they stand out from the crowd. Mostly I use monochrome for indoor shots when there is not enough light for colour and I don't want to use a flash. Sometimes I simply make a mistake and forget to reset my camera to colour. Of course you can make any colour photo into a monochrome, using a computer or the onboard menu on your camera, but these were taken as black and whites; there's no turning back. And there were whales.
