Well, I live smack in the middle of Stoke, a famously ugly and depressed industrial city in England. But herons and buzzards fly over my house, and if I stroll down to the River Trent or the Trent and Mersey Canal I can see kingfishers any time I like.
    But in terms of life time ambition, in years and years of boating I've never got really close to a whale, and that I do want to do.I've seen them, but only a long way away. So here's hoping.