Whale Volunteers Having a Fin-tastic Season!
Volunteers began observations from Pt. Piquet on September 1st this year, and what a start it was! Huge numbers of humpbacks were already moving through Geographe Bay, more so than […]
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Busselton Dunsborough Times: “Blue whales focus of study”
Last week the Busselton Dunsborough Times newspaper published an article about the work of SouWEST in Geographe Bay. Featuring a lovely blue whale picture by Chris Burton (Western Whale Research), […]
Listening in, not looking out!
As big storms and massive swells swamp the coast of Western Australia, the theodolite team has taken cover for a few days and temporarily ceased observations. On lovely calm days […]
Sightings Update and SouWEST Seminar!
It has been a busy week for D-CALC volunteers and Chris Burton of Western Whale Research! The community volunteers have been spending an average of 30hrs per week conducing observations […]
First Blue Whales of 2012!
The Geographe Bay whale season has welcomed its largest visitors this week, with the appearance of the blue whales! Chris Burton (Western Whale Research) has been conducting land-based surveys from […]
Whales have arrived!
Chris Burton (Western Whale Research) and Ron Glencross (Dunsborough Coast and Landcare) – two of the founding members of SouWEST – were out at Pt Picquet last week and had […]
Whales at Sunset
What an amazing week! We have had a steady stream of blue whales coming through each day, culminating with a SouWEST record of 16 blues yesterday! Most of the blue […]
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