As the story progresses, he meets a woman named Saluni, who falls deeply in love with the Whale Caller.

He confesses his love for Sharisha and adds in that he bought a tuxedo for the sole purpose of welcoming her back.

Next, he opens up to his past by describing the origin of his ways beginning forty years earlier.

He describes where he lived after leaving the church in his home village in South Africa, and how things there have changed over the years.

Population growth in addition to the vast increase in tourism turn the Whale Caller into an outcast.

He despises the mobs of tourists who have no comparable knowledge to his about whales he wades through on a daily basis but notices one particular woman who seems to be everywhere he goes, and who always seems to be watching him.

It takes a while for the Whale Caller to speak to this woman but eventually he approaches Saluni, known as the village drunk, and has an uneventful conversation ending with her walking away.

They meet a couple weeks later and pick up where the previous conversation leaves off by discussing whales and learning of their opposing views.

Saluni realizes her attraction to the Whale Caller and ventures to his Wendy House in response to his offer to cure her lice problem.

The Whale Caller displayed his affection for Sarisha by getting sexually aroused with an audience and ending with Saluni showing up.

The Whale Caller's relationship with Saluni continues to grow as she attempts to initiate him into a more civilized living style.

She even tries to initiate sex with him but his mind becomes filled with images of whales, including Sharisha and he is unable to follow through.

The Whale Caller still spends his time watching Sharisha and her calf while Saluni attempts to catch his attention.

Later Saluni comes up with a plan to have the Bored Twins use their beautiful singing voices for a radio station.

The twins are excited but their parents are not and quickly shut the idea down again saying the machines will steal the children's voices.

Now that Saluni is blind the Whale Caller feels guilty and tells her that he will follow her and guide her.

The book skips and a freak wave hits Hermanus causing massive damage.

An emergency team comes and attempts to push Sharisha back into the water as the Whale Caller helplessly watches.

This strains his relationship with Saluni who struggles to create intimacy with the Whale Caller since he is preoccupied with Sharisha.

Ultimately though, the Whale Caller remains faithful to Sharisha and appeasing Saluni, until their deaths at the end of the novel.

The Bored Twins have beautiful singing voices, which comfort Saluni during her times of depression.

At the end of the novel, as Saluni is leaving the twins’ house, they try to stop her by throwing rocks at her head, but they take it too far and accidentally kill her.

Mda foreshadows Saluni's death earlier in the novel when the twins would torture frogs and snakes, preparing the reader for the psychopathology of the murder.

This means that the Whale Caller is constantly thinking of Sharisha, even during his most intimate moments with Saluni.

For example, when they start their journey, Saluni wants them to take the side roads, that are away from the ocean, so that The Whale Caller does not think about Sharisha.

Saluni starts running to go back to The Whale Caller and the twins try to slow her down by throwing rocks at her.

When they see that this works, they make a game out of it and they continue throwing stones at her until they realize that she is no longer moving nor breathing.

Its fame comes from its great vantage points to watch southern right whales during the spring and winter.