1.19 ACSF Interactive Resource L4: Subject-Verb Agreement Motor
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HAVING A WHALE OF A TIME
Trincomalee sits on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a colonial outpost of what was British Ceylon. I was headed 20 nautical miles out from its beaches, where it's a mile straight down
into the sun-dappled big blue. Let's be clear: it is a rare experience to come face to face with something with a head the size of a lorry, like an underwater Optimus Prime. It's rare
because who on earth gets in the water to study something that weighs the same as 30 elephants, are the length of five buses and, if it was so inclined, could just open its mouth
and scoop you into its belly, consigning you to the same fate as Jonah or Pinocchio and his dad? Call me Ishmael, but these beasts have form.
Should you want to cast aside those warnings from literature, and commune with whales both sperm and blue, then Trincomalee should be your first port of call. At certain times
of the year it's home to "superpods" of sperm whales - entire families bringing their calves to the surface show them what humans look like when they're trying to stay afloat in
the open ocean.
Cinnamon Nature Trails, a local company, have the only conservation licence that will let you see these creatures up close, and the rule are strict but simple: you is there for study
and research alone, and you is only allowed in the water on this basis. You are on - or rather in the whales' home surf and, as they will be curious, no more than two people
should be in the water with them at any one time. Ever.
"You must stay together," instructed Daya, my whale-spotting guide. Then you present only one target."I was sitting in a small boat nervously holding some expensive
photographic gear and very much not liking his use of the word "target. The sperm whale is sensitive. You do not splash. She will not be alone. Family groups could be between
eight and 15 whales, so don't frighten them."