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Grand Final Day and Whale Songs’ Freo departure

Day 1 Grand Final Day and Whale Songs’ Freo departure… (Written on Sep 28, 2013) Under a cloudy but golden lit sky, the silhouette profile of lighthouses, hills and pine trees on Rottnest fades on our portside.  Between cloud patches the sunlight illuminates the sea as a wonderful mid-green seaway speckled with white-caps indicative of […]

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Whale Song Antarctic Voyage for Ecosystem Studies

Whale Song Antarctic Voyage for Ecosystem Studies (WAVES)   The Voyage Curt and Micheline Jenner are Co-Principal Investigators at the Centre for Whale Research (Western Australia) Inc., and Explorers Club Members (FI’10).  They are leading a new expedition to the Southern Ocean near the Antarctic ice shelf to monitor blue whales and their feeding habitat using […]

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New Video Diary 21/08/2013

Satellite Tags as Explained by Prof. Russ Andrews        

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New Video Diary 14/08/2013

  Watch our latest video diary  –  Dwarf Minke Whales of the Great Barrier Reef  by clicking on the link below: CWR Video Diaries    

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Day 10 Dolphin Heaven!

Day 10 Dolphin Heaven! (Written on June 10, 2013) At midnight we are just south of Cape Northumberland, very close to the border between SA and Victoria.  Passing sweeping Discovery Bay with the light of Cape Northumberland flashing, I am certain southern right whales will be nestling inside this bay.  We are in 26 m […]

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Day 9 Cloudy Southern Sunday…

Day 9 Cloudy Southern Sunday… (Written on June 09, 2013) Rubbing my eyes to wake quickly while stepping into the wheelhouse, I notice there are all kinds of lights on show.  Homes, streetlights and lighthouses sparkle from three locations.  A white line of beads on Marsden Point (on the NE tip of Kangaroo Island) glows […]

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Day 8 This Way to the Tropics…

Day 8 This Way to the Tropics… (Written on June 08, 2013) At 0745 in the morning Freddie kindly arrives to take Sam to the airport and Dale and Inday for last minute supplies. Newspapers, pastries and a snapper part of the essentials bought from Port Lincoln. By 1030 we are moving from the jetty […]

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Day 7 Among History and Whales!

Day 7 Among History and Whales! (Written on June 07, 2013)   We have a SW wind and swell for the start of the 7th.  June the seventh?  Some-one please tell me how we got to the middle of the year so quickly!  New Years’ Eve feels like yesterday! Approaching Eyre Peninsula, 68 nm to […]

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Day 6 B is for Blue W… ater

Day 6 B is for Blue W… ater (Written on June 06, 2013)   The sea is becoming lively with a bouncy zing, reminding us where we are.  Checking all the screens and instruments in the wheelhouse at the beginning of my watch, I am glad to see they are there – the zooplankton that […]

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Day 5 A is for Albatross!

Day 5 A is for Albatross! (Written on June 05, 2013) Impressively bright cloud masses in intense red/yellow/green & black blobs on both radar screens put me on alert when I report for my 12-3am watch. This is the Low pressure we have been expecting and this system, oriented from SE to NE, looks heavy […]

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