Last of the whalers

Bequia islanders in the eastern Caribbean are the only whalers in the Americas still allowed to hunt Moby Dick style. But keeping tradition and pursuing conservation is tough business.

Standing on the rocky shore of Bequia Island, the tall, greying man looks pensively through drizzling rain at the dark clouds, listens to the angry sea and wonders if nature will deny him a whale yet another day. Don’t call him Ishmael. Call him Kingsley. Kingsley Stowe is among what could be the last in a long line of whalers from this tiny island.