Travellers in search of a different holiday could profit by reading
Mark Carwardine’s On the Trail of the Whale (Thunder Bay Publishing, Guildford,
pp 158, £9.95 pbk). Carwardine has followed whales and dolphins around
the world, swimming with pilot whales in the Canary Islands, paddling after
them in a kayak along the coast of Mexico and struggling to photograph them
through an excited barrage of Japanese tourists. His love of sea mammals
shines through the book, informing the guidelines he gives for observing
and photographing them. He suggests that you take your pace from the slowest
whale in the group if you are following them by boat, that you keep your
distance and limit your visit to a quarter of an hour.
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