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San Juan Islands Whale Watching
Related Whale Links
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with Go Northwest!
Listed below are links
to a variety of websites devoted to whales and whale watching. For
information about whale watching charters and outfitters, please go to our
San Juan Islands whale watching page.
Coastal
Research Foundation (CERF). Allison Harbour,
P.
O.
Box 124,
Port Hardy, BC V0N
2P0. Phone: 604-202-9350;
Toll-free: 1-877-223-2373;
Fax: 815-327-0183.
E-mail
CERF is a Canadian non-profit organization that funds research on whales,
dolphins, and their environment through an eco-tourism program. Here you
will find information on the whale research trips we offer, as well as on
our research programs. You will also find some general whale & dolphin
information.
Northwest
Center for Environmental Education, San Juan Island, WA, USA. A
summer 1996 science camp, with a focus on the Orca and other marine
mammals. Olympic
Coast National Marine Sanctuary. 138 West First Street, Port
Angeles WA 98362. Phone: 360-457-6622. Covers 3,310-square miles of marine waters
off the Olympic Peninsula coastline and provides habitat for one of the most
diverse marine mammal faunas in North America and a critical link in the
Pacific flyway. The sanctuary boasts a rich mix of cultures, preserved in
contemporary lives of members of Quinault, Hoh, Quileute, and Makah tribes.
Pacific Orca
Society, British Columbia
Pacific
Rim Whale Festival. PO Box 995, Ucluelet, BC V0R 3A0. Phone:
250-726-7798; Fax: 250-726-2688. E-mail
The
Virtual Whale Project
3D Animation and sound environment for the visualization of the feeding behaviors
of Pacific Humpback Whales.
The Whale Museum.
The Whale Museum. 62
First Street North, P.O. Box 945, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA
98250. Toll-free: 1-800-946-7227. Whale
Net
An interactive educational project sponsored (whale, seal, dolphin, porpoise and turtle data) by Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts with support from the National Science Foundation.
Whales
on the Net
Join us on a wonderful journey into the world of Cetaceans, those mysterious animals that spend their entire lives in water. Dive down to the greatest depths and discover the Blue whale, the Right whale, Sperm, Humpback, Sei, Gray, Bowhead, Fin, Minke, Orca, Dolphins and more. Pick your
favorite whale or dolphin and find out what it is doing, what it looks like and where it lives.
Whalesong - An odyssey of sight,
sound, and science by Ken McCann "Whale
Watching Spoken Here"�
A volunteer whale watching program during peak gray whale migration times
coinciding with winter and spring breaks. Trained volunteers stationed at
twenty-nine locations on or near the Oregon Coast provide information and
assist spotting whales.
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The San Juan
Islands map will
help you locate cities, towns and other attractions.
The
Whale Watcher's Guide: Whale-Watching Trips in North America.
by Patricia Corrigan, Roger Payne
Paperback, 328 pages, Updated edition,
March 1999.
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now...
Killer
Whales: The Natural History and Genealogy of Orcinus Orca in British Columbia
and Washington State
by John K. B. Ford, Graeme M. Ellis, Kenneth C., III Balcomb
Paperback: 104 pages, University of
Washington Press, ISBN: 0295979585. Updated edition, June 15, 2000.
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now...
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