Virtual Whale Watching
Last night at 1 o'clock in the morning I was just about to go to sleep in Amsterdam when Karli, the expedition leader on the Esperanza, messaged me saying "check out the web cam now, we have 30 or more humpbacks all around us eating their breakfast". Sure enough, after a few minutes of waiting patiently gazing at my laptop I saw a humpback surface in front of the ship with a spout! Like many whale watchers, I've been lucky enough to see humpbacks up close but how many people can say they have watched them in the Southern Ocean, in real time, from their bed in a completely different hemisphere?
You can view live web cam images here and check out some of the images captured from last night here. Irene, the lovely web editor on board the Esperanza has also written about "sailing through whale breakfast" on the blog and she is setting up more web cams around the ship now so us land lubbers should have an even better virtual whale watching experience soon!
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Sorry Greenpeace, you lose.
Failure to disclose the position of the whaling fleet to another guardian and protest group may have caused whale deaths, if you're not going to be part of the solution, just limelight hogs, you won't get any more donations from me.
The whaler aren't playing by the rules, so lets stop them now, and if you wont, then get the hell out of the way and let those that can or are willing to, do it!
The lives of Whales are more important that your stupid Donation protecting policies.
I hope you choke on your donations!
Blood of Whales is on your hands!
Posted by: Andrew | January 20, 2008 1:21 AM