During my early days of living in Brixham my wife, myself, and some good friends all cleaned holiday properties. It was reliable work in a town that depends heavily on its tourism industry and some days it was easy work. Inevitably, other days weren’t so good. Some guests would treat their property with respect, leaving it as clean and tidy as could ...
Over the last four years there have been many reports and articles about the increase of dead Grey whales washing up on coastlines of the States and Canada. As with all these tragic moments, the bodies are examined to determine cause of death. You’d be forgiven for thinking that in most cases these giants of the ocean were killed by plastics. We’ve ...
Recently The Yorkshire Post reported an orca spotted less than three miles off an RSPB reserve in the county. A “huge, tall, vertical dorsal” was seen multiple times from the Grandstand viewpoint at the Bempton Cliffs reserve, near Bridlington; the first time an orca has been seen off the coast of Yorkshire since 2007. The sighting has since been ...
It isn’t uncommon to hear about the death of a captive animal. Captivity isn’t the friend of any wild animal to be honest. But Lolita epitomised the very reasons for why captivity is a bad decision. As an Orca she spent 50 years in captivity. She was taught to perform and essentially became a business asset for driving visitor attendance.
You never know what happens on a trip! On one of our evening decompressions trips, a two-hour short journey looking for the normal sea-life and watching the sunset. We had an additional ...
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