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Destination 2008 Next trip: Mid March 2008 - 1 week trip Highlights of the Monterey Bay Whale Watching Trip…
Description Monterey Bay and this part of the California coastline is one of the best places to see migrating Gray Whales. The deep Monterey Submarine Canyon comes in close to shore in the Bay region causing the Gray Whales to pass closer in to the shore here as they prefer the shallower water along the coast. During our three-hour boat tours this gives us plenty of time to find the whales and also look for the deep-water dolphin species like Dall's Porpoise, Pacific White Sided Dolphins and Killer Whales that may be found nearer the edge of the canyon. During the winter and spring from December to April the entire Gray Whale population passes north through the coastal waters of the Monterey Bay region on one of the longest animal migrations of nearly 12,000 miles. Te whales travel from their winter breeding grounds to their summer feeding areas in the Bering Sea and around the Alaskan Peninsular. At the end of the summer months they travel back again. This annual migration has been taking place for thousands of years. Staying in comfortable small hotels and inns in the Monterey Bay region we have access to some of the best wildlife viewing in this region of the United States. The Monterey Submarine Canyon is the largest marine park in the US and we have access to one of the most dramatic parts of the Pacific coastline around Big Sur with it's Elephant Seal colony, Californian Condors and the wilderness areas of Ventura County. In addition there is the world famous Monterey Bay Aquarium and the city of San Francisco all within easy reach. Itinerary
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Did you know...?Proposals tabled by the United Nations and the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission to put in place lasting protection for deep sea habitats and sea mounts has recently been scuppered by the pirate whaling nation Iceland. Talks to introduce a moratorium on unregulated deep water bottom trawling, a practice which is incredibly damaging to the deep sea marine environment, have recently been taking place. Even nations such as Japan, Canada and Spain, not known for their enlightened conservation policies, were prepared to accept a compromise which would have lead to a degree of protection for deep sea environments, especially cold water corals and sea mounts. Iceland however, was the only country to block the consensus that could have been reached and push for a continued destruction of deepwater marine habitats through bottom trawling. Habitats that harbour fish like the Orange Roughy which are believed to live as long as 200 years. The deep sea marine environment is very easily damaged by activities such as bottom trawling and some habitats may never recover. The call for a moratorium on deep water trawling has been supported by a recent study published in the acclaimed journal Science, that if we do not substantially change the way in which we manage our oceans then we may see a collapse of many commercial fisheries around the globe as early as 2048. |
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Notes from some of our visitors...
Dear Nic,Many thanks for including me in the (newsletter ) distribution--please keep me on it! I've been trying to follow the marine mammal news in West Cork from the reports on the IWDG website (and always note the references there to you), but your wonderful newsletter creates a much fuller & more vivid picture. Thanks also for the way you remind and inform about conservation issues--something that a lot of whale watch operators neglect to do.
Sue & I very much enjoyed our Sept 5 trip with you and look forward to seeing you again in 2006. After reading your newsletter, I came close (with Sue's encouragement) to just hopping on a flight tonight. Very best wishes to you and your family.
Greetings from Greystones. Aaron and myself would like to say a very big thank you for the trip last Thursday. It was superb. The photos (Bottlenose Dolphins) are not bad so I will forward them to you soon.
We shall return.
It was so good to receive your latest newsletter. Thanks for keeping us in touch with events. Eva and I still talk about our fantastic experience we had with you earlier this year. The children were impeccably behaved that day and the way you explained things to them was brilliant. We are now looking to visit West Cork again for two weeks at the end of August to tie in with whale watching. We've already booked in at the Shearwater Hotel. We will definitely be looking you up to see if you can accommodate the two of us for some more "expeditions".
Best wishes
We were out on one of your trips at the end of August. There was a bit of a chop on, but you found us whales nevertheless. Brilliant! The trip was complete with the frolics of some 20 or 30 dolphins for quite a time alongside and around the boat, so we couldn't have asked for more. Wonderful day and thanks.