With other Explorers Club members, Bennett has traveled to Hawaii to study humpback whales, to Madagascar to catalog the island's flora and fauna, to Mount Kilimanjaro for a bit of bioprospecting, and to Easter Island for an archeology project.
He is travelling with at least four other whales as part of the seasonal migration of humpbacks to warmer waters.
The Stellwagen sanctuary is prime habitat for a pencil-size schooling fish called the sandlance that draws a host of predators, from the humpbacks to fin whales, minke whales, dolphins, striped bass and bluefin tuna.
The famous albino whale is travelling with at least four other whales as part of the seasonal migration of humpbacks to warmer waters The white humpback, first noticed in 1991, was sighted off the coast of Eden on Wednesday, and then Cronulla, south of Sydney, on Thursday afternoon.
The bubble-curtains created by circling Humpbacks to coral their prey into a lungeable mouthful.
One of the lodge's owners, Joseph Richards, a South African mining executive, conducts charter fishing trips in search of barracuda, mackerel and marlin (to eat) and humpback whales (to watch).
Audio: A baby humpback sings to its mother.
So pregnant females head for nutrient-poor, subtropical waters, beyond the range of this potential predator and their relocation motivates the rest of the humpback population to follow.
Olivier Theyskens' designs for Rochas may have editors panting, but as Mr. de la Renta knows, they owe their lacework and ruffles and humpback silhouettes to Balenciaga.
From May to September, Byron Bay is on the migration path of the humpback whales to their winter feeding ground and then back.
