Whale watching is becoming more and more the thing to do. People go to the Scottish coast, Iceland, Norway, American coastal waters, just to see these majestic creatures of which we still understand so little.
So today where is the hottest place to see a whale?
Central London.
I kid you not. Central London in the River Thames is the place to see a whale. A 6-metre (20ft to you ignorant stick-in-the-mud pedants who won't adjust to a standard which you didn't decree) bottle-nose whale has got itself lost and has swum up the River Thames right into the heart of the city. It is probably confused and very frightened and doesn't know which way to go. If it stays it will die. If it continues to swim further upstream it will die. Its only hope is that it will realise its mistake and turn round and head back out to sea where it can feed and recover. Already it has beached itself once on the bank - some well-meaning whale lovers managed to coax it back into deeper water where it could swim.
The good news is that it was at the time of writing seen in Greenwich, which is nearer to the sea. So perhaps it has seen the error of its ways and turned around.
I hope it gets back to its own world where it can be free to do what whales do and go where whales go and live like whales do. If it does regain its freedom I wonder what impressions it will take back of the day it went to London?
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