Very rare whales

October 9th, 2011

There aren’t many North Atlantic right whales left in the world. Around about 300 at the latest count and last February I was lucky enough to meet a few of them. I was in Cape Cod, visiting my sister, and decided to spend a day out on the bay with a research team from the Provincetown Centre for Coastal Studies.

It was early in the season for the right whales and could have been a heck of a nasty winters day out on the water. But we got lucky and the sun shone down on us and a bunch of frolicking whales.

BBC Radio 4 recently broadcast a short documentary I made in Cape Cod about North Atlantic Right Whales on their Saving Species programme (series 2 episode 18) – my bit starts at the 20 minute mark followed by an interview with Charles ‘Stormy’ Mayo, founder of the PCCS giving an update on what’s been going on with the whales since I was there.

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