A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The magnificent mammals swim up to several boats full of tourists and get so close that the passengers can stroke the mother and baby whale. The special moment was photographed by lawyer Andrea Izzotti, 47, of Genovia, Italy. Andrea says: “The mother was milking her calf in shallow waters, but they are very curious animals and they came up to our boats to see the humans.
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
