An aerial view of southern right whales in Hermanus, South Africa [Courtesy of the Whale Unit at the University of Pretoria’s Mammal Research Institute] I arrive in Hermanus, a picturesque South ...

WE all love a bit of winter sun and one of the best ways to find it is to fly Norse to South — Norse Atlantic that is. And when I say South, I’m talking South Africa or, to be more precise, Cape ...

The landscape is otherworldly — pristine white glaciers, massive icebergs, and wildlife that seems completely unbothered by ...

I arrive in Hermanus, a picturesque South African coastal village an hour-and-a-half from Cape Town, at about 11am on a sunny October morning. Ignoring the restaurants and art galleries on the ...

South Africa is the southern hemisphere’s oldest wine-producing country (first crush circa 1659). Yet, it has the spirit of ...

From Hermanus, skirt the Klein River Lagoon ... with a gorgeous stretch of coastline where hundreds of southern right whales arrive each year from June to November to calve and nurse their young ...

Granitic folds of mountain stitch right across ... of the Babylonstoren mountains. Or book in Hermanus, the main town of the Overberg, and the whale-watching capital of the world.

drive out to Hermanus to look at Southern Right whales breaching, attend the Classic Car Festival in Franschhoek or join the pro-Palestine march to Parliament in Cape Town. I had already planned a ...

Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to ...

A group of scientists saw over 75 North Atlantic right whales gathered in the Gulf of Maine. Here's what we know.

The whales were seen “in all directions: at the surface, swimming, and diving,” said Kate Laemmle, associate research ...