The Aim:• Learn about Hermanus Whale Festival

Glossary:

• Retirement-уход на пенсию• Shallow-мелкий• Vapor-пар

HermanusHermanus is a town with 80,400 inhabitants on the southern coast of the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is famous for watching southern right whales during the southern winter and spring, and is a popular retirement town.

The Whale Festival of Hermanus has been running since 1992.

Whales

The Southern Right Whales comes to the waters of Hermanus every year and they can be viewed sometimes only meteres from the shore as they rear their young babies and play in the shallow waters.

Thousands of people come to the festival to watch "water show" performed by killer whales, blue and humpback whales. Whales jumping in the waves, dive, flop on the stomach and produce sparkling fountains of water vapor.

Hermanus is one of the few places in the world where so many of the Southern Right Whales can be seen at such close quarters, with the record viewed in just one day being 196 Whales.

In conclusion, we learned about the festival, and now we know what it is, and can imagine yourself in the place of spectators.

So,I think it`s very interesting and picturesque festival.

I wish one day we could see it with our own eyes!

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