• Whale Weekend a HUGE success

    by  • November 3, 2010 • Announcements

    Whale Weekend at the Discovery Centre was a huge success.  There was standing room only in the Theatrette on Friday night for Dave Donnelly’s very informative presentation about the latest news in whale research.

     

    Kids enjoying the whale festival 2010

    This happy crowd just ‘planted’ their whale tails

     

    Whale festival craft 2010

    Rick Walker was very proud of his scrimshaw sperm whale tooth

    Saturday was a huge day, with loads of young families taking advantage of the free entry.  Many children happily coloured in whale tails for the Sea of Whale Tails, made their own ‘scrimshaw’ on plaster cast sperm whale teeth, and we’re sure all of them spent time checking out the animals in the ever-popular touch tank.Dave was joined by Kylie Owen who is about to start her PhD on a number of aspects of the humpback whale migration that has become such a huge part of the culture of the Sapphire Coast.  She wowed the crowd with video footage of the placement of high tech monitoring devices onto the backs of humpbacks and another giving the audience a close look at how these amazing creatures feed when in our region on the way to Antarctica.

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    Located in Eden on the Sapphire Coast, the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre a temperate climate marine education and research centre.

    https://www.sapphirecoastdiscovery.com.au