Missing out on Beluga was one of the few disappointments of our 2016 trip to Alaska. We never expected to see one in Britain, but this afternoon we dashed off to Gravesend to see the whale that has taken up residence in the Thames. After a couple of hours we were having a Moby Dick afternoon, with a fruitless search for a white whale, but eventually it showed itself. We got some decent views, but it was never properly cooperative, although we eventually got some pictures (it is a whale, honest – not a lump of polystyrene). More of a surprise was a Manx Shearwater flying up and down the Thames.
We got better views than this, but getting the camera on it was difficult
Manx Shearwater
