Tag Archives: whale

Iceland whale tourism idea is brilliant

By 6000 | 6000 | July 16, 2011

Iceland. Land of ice. And volcanoes. And financial ruin (like everywhere else these days). And puffins. They’ve come up with another gem of an idea to attract visitors to their lump of rock: Whale watching – with a twist. You get to eat what you see. Watching and hunting whales “work perfectly together” in a [...]

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Best line ever on the Cape Times letters page

By 6000 | 6000 | July 23, 2010

This from yesterday. Sadly the original online version is hidden behind their silently ever-expanding paywall so I will faithfully and accurately recreate it for you here. It relates to the biggest thing to come out of Cape Town since the Holland v Uruguay World Cup semi-final: that already infamous collision between flying whale and sailing yacht. The question [...]

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Boo!

By 6000 | 6000 | July 20, 2010

There you are – happily sailing away in Table Bay, the most intrepid part of your day being the name of your yacht and then: Boo! Yep. That would be a Southern Right whale (probably a calf) jumping  - or breaching, to be technically correct – onto the yacht belonging to the Cape Town Sailing [...]

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