A lost, fog-shrouded lighthouse in the north of Sakhalin Island and a beautiful picturesque cape on the Kamchatka Peninsula are two points on the map where scientists and simply caring people have been coming every season for thirty years to conduct research, study and observe gray whales and killer whales. Despite many difficulties, from a virtually complete lack of funding to bad weather, these people, led by Alexander Mikhailovich Burdin, do their small but very important work of studying and preserving cetaceans year after year.