There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵
This is how we should see these magnificant animals, not hauled up on a boat or in fillets on a slab. We should no more catch or kill this rare and stunning megafauna than we should trap or kill tigers or whales. Here are some more of Rupert’s photos from yesterday, with his kind permission.
Instead we get this. I had to block at least a dozen trolls, who thought they were being ever-so-clever by telling me how much they'd enjoy eating it: bsky.app/profile/geor...
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Do check out Rupert’s website. It’s amazing. And so is he. thelonekayaker.wordpress.com
The Lone Kayaker
I want more people to see and appreciate these wonderful creatures, returning to our shores. You can travel the world and not see a greater wildlife spectacle than you can here, hard by the coast. Let's see the boats now taking people out to catch them instead taking people out to watch them.
Oct 6, 2026, 8:05 AM@georgemonbiot.bsky.social @joannaholman people mostly have no clue about how huge tuna get. They are big buggers.
@trib @georgemonbiot.bsky.social I didn’t have a clue. If you’d asked me to guess I might have guessed around 60cm or so
Oct 6, 2026, 3:00 PM@joannaholman @georgemonbiot.bsky.social if you ever come our way, I'll take you to the fishing fleet docks at Eden or Bermagui. Watching them unload a tuna boat is wild.
Oct 6, 2026, 8:11 AM@georgemonbiot.bsky.social What a magnificent fish! 🤩