All photos Coke Smith
In my final edition of Bangkok Wildlife Watching with Coke, I want to highlight something that may be familiar to many but is nonetheless spectacular: the famous whale-watching that can be had off the coastline.
As many know, residing in the upper gulf is a species known as Eden’s Whale, or Balaenoptera edeni, which is still commonly confused with its slightly bigger cousin, the Bryde’s Whale. They’ve been a part of the gulf ecosystem for tens of thousands of years; with their remains found hundreds of kilometers north in the upper reaches of the Chao Phraya River Basin, when sea levels were much different.
Currently there are over 200 leviathans living in our vicinity and they can be seen with a fair amount of success aboard boats that go out regularly. Watching these 15-meter mammals gently swim in pursuit of anchovies and other small fish is…
