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To join a scheduled workshop please click here / or sms the whale watch hotline - 079 391 2105

 

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WHALE SPOTTER WORKSHOPS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPONSORS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barons Volkswagen

 

 

 

 

Blue Gecko Restaurant

 

 

 

 

Food Lover’s Market of Longbeach Mall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golden River Spur

 

 

 

 

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We are offering in partnership with educators (biologists, scientists and nature guides) a series of Whale Spotter Workshops from March to August 2013.

 

The sessions are for groups of 50 people at a time (children aged 7 to 14 and a parent/guardian), usually on Saturday mornings from 07h30 for 08h00 to 09h30.

 

The workshop is based on the new educational poster on whales and dolphins (pending publication) and the new whale watch leaflet . Topics covered include what is a whale/what is a dolphin/what is a killer whale; local whale and dolphin species; the scale of a whale in relationship to elephants and mammoths (this is a link to mathematics and also the West Coast Fossil Park); anatomy, echolocation; feeding grounds; how they feed; migration; mating, calving, nursing; threats to their existence and their defences; conservation - think Blue/think Green – litter/waste management. These orientation topics are followed by whale watching tourism; where to watch on our coastline; a recap on whale and dolphin species most likely to be seen; surface behaviour; what to report including a photograph, how to report; where to find your report on the web site/whale sightings log.

 

At the end of the session participants “graduate” and are “awarded” their “flukes”. They will be given a Whale Spotter membership card that lists the benefits of being a “club” member and some meal vouchers. Complimentary air time will be sent at a later stage in the season.

 

Community groups currently participating include the Nippers, Sea Scouts/Girl Guides/Brownies, Bay Primary, Wynberg Junior, SACS and Fish Hoek Primary.

 

Workshops are scheduled for:

 

·         9 March – inaugural Whale Spotter Workshop Session 1 and again on 6 April – inaugural Whale Spotter Workshop Session 2 – check the photo albums here on Facebook .

 

·         13 April – second Whale Spotter Workshop Session 1 and again on 20 April – second Whale Spotter Workshop Session 2 - check the photo albums here on Facebook .

 

Note: From here onwards workshops are held on one day, maximum 90 minutes total for both sessions.

 

·         11 May – third Whale Spotter Workshop Session  - check the photo albums here on Facebook .

 

·         18 May – fourth Whale Spotter Workshop Session -  check the photo albums here on Facebook .

 

·         8 June – fifth Whale Spotter Workshop Session (regret cancelled).

 

·         15 June – sixth Whale Spotter Workshop Session (regret cancelled).

 

Note: there are no workshops at FLM in July but there are two at the Cape Town Science Centre (Saturday 6 & 13 July 2013).

 

·         3 August – seventh Whale Spotter Workshop Session (regret cancelled).

 

·         17 August – eighth and final for the season Whale Spotter Workshop Session (open for bookings).

 

 

Note: there is a Whale Spotter Workshop for Adult Spotters on 4 May 2013.

 

To enrol either individually or as a member of a community group, please click here and send your name, age, parent/guardian’s name, e mail address, community group, preferred date and special dietary requirements (gluten free, Halaal, Kosher etc).

 

The venue for all workshops is Whale Central upstairs at Food Lover’s Market, Longbeach Mall

 

Sponsors include the Blue Gecko Restaurant and Golden River Spur.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEWS FLASH 1 for West Coast Junior Whale Spotters – we’re offering to host two groups on a Whale Camp during the July and September school holidays

ie one group from St Helena Bay and the other from Langebaan. This is a day visit that includes attending a Whale Spotter workshop and a visit to the Submarine

Museum in Simon’s Town. The sub’s sonar is working so you’ll hear underwater sound eg: shellfish or passing boats. If dolphins come around the edge of

the quay, you’ll hear them too!!

 

NEWS FLASH 2 for grades 9, 10 and 11: Simon Gear the 50/50 TV presenter is our guest speaker at our annual conference on Wednesday 18 September 2013.

You’d better belieb it!