First week a (theo)delight!
It has been a busy first week, with the theodolite team undertaking monitoring shifts twice a day, the unveiling of SouWEST’s “Whale Count Boards”, and a whale-spotting trip to Point […]
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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 […]
Bye Blues!
So our 2011 field season officially ended last week. On Wednesday the remaining members of the theodolite team packed up and returned to Perth. This was a fantastic season and […]
Calves, fluke ups AND two types of cake!
What a fabulous weekend Slightly lower whale numbers than last weekend, suggesting we may be coming to the end of the season. But what we lacked in numbers was made […]
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 […]
The Start of a Blue-tiful Season!
BLUE WHALE!!! We saw our first blue whale of the season today! We had been wrestling with uncooperative equipment for a while and had just switched to manual observations when […]
Bring on the Blues!
Welcome to the first ever post from the brand new SouWEST website! Not only is the beginning of an online presence very exciting, but it also coincides with the beginning […]
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