In Dili, people say a good way to spend the afternoon is to sit at a cafe with a cappuccino and watch the blue whales pass by. The thing is, they're only half joking. At least 500 pygmy blue whales ...

Singapore: From outside the two shipping containers he has converted into a beach house east of Dili, Jose Ramos-Horta has for years watched whales swim close to the shore. “I often sit there and we ...

For about two months each year, fisherman Faustino Mauloko da Cunha transforms his home along the South Pacific coast into a whale monitoring station. From the morning, villagers and student ...