[SEMCO] All Day Whale Watch with PCCS

Mon Aug 7 16:34:50 EDT 2006

Please join the 

PROVINCETOWN CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES

for an 

All Day Ecological Whale Watch

exploring offshore habitat areas frequented by

birds, marine mammals, sharks, seals and

many more exciting marine species.

All DAY ECOLOGICAL WHALE WATCH

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

9 AM - 5 PM

$125 per person (lunch included)

This trip, for experienced amateur naturalists interested in marine mammals, seabirds, and marine exploration, will be offered aboard the Portuguese Princess' modern and well-maintained whale watching vessel Captain Red and will take you to habitat areas not easily accessible in a typical 3-4 hour whale watch, including possible visits to: the Great South Channel, Jefferies Ledge, Platts Bank, Wildcat Knolls, nearshore habitats east of Cape Cod and the Gerry E. Studds-Stellwagen Bank.

PCCS's highly experienced Marine Educators, Research Assistants, and Scientists will explain the ecological significance of these different habitat areas and offer training into collecting sightings, behavioral, environmental and atmospheric data.  Plankton tows will be conducted with viewing of zooplankton and phytoplankton samples through microscopes.  All of the opportunistic data collected during this trip will be added to PCCS's long term database of large whales in the Gulf of Maine.

Departing from Fishermen's Wharf in Provincetown at 9 AM and returning to Provincetown at 5 PM on Saturday, September 9. Lunch is included.  Space is limited.

For more information or reservations, please call the Portuguese Princess at 1-800-442-3188 or email ccodder2 at comcast.net.

For recent whale watch sightings, please visit: http://www.coastalstudies.org/what-we-do/education-programs/whale-watching/wwsightings.htm

Sightings from Previous All-Day trip in June included: 8 humpback whales including two cow/calf (mother/baby) pairs, 6-8 endangered finback whales, 4-5 minke whales, basking sharks, Greater, Sooty and Manx shearwaters, Northern Gannets, Wilson’s storm petrels, Common terns, Herring, Laughing and Black-backed gulls, Double crested cormorants and Eider ducks. For a detailed account of the trip, please visit:  http://www.coastalstudies.org/what-we-do/education-programs/whale-watching/ecotour.htm

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Joanne M. Jarzobski
Marine Education Director

Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies
PO Box 1036
5 Holway Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
508/487-3623 x107
508/487-4695 fax
solution at coastalstudies.org

The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies [www.coastalstudies.org] is a non-profit organization dedicated to research, education and conservation of the marine and coastal environments through applied science and education programs.   PCCS is internationally renowned for its whale research and rescue activities, and is a leading authority in science-based resource management policies in Massachusetts. 

PCCS, one of the founders of whale watching on the east coast of the United States, has spent over 30 years conducting whale research and education programs in the waters surrounding Cape Cod, guiding over 25,000 whale watch trips since 1976 and educating nearly 2 million passengers about the endangered whales, birds and other marine animals that depend on the Stellwagen Bank, Cape Cod Bay and Gulf of Maine ecosystems for their survival. PCCS maintains the humpback whale catalog for the Gulf of Maine and can provide life history information for the over 2000 individual humpback whales cataloged since 1976.

Directions to Provincetown:

Portuguese Princess Whalewatch is located in Provincetown, MA at the tip of Cape Cod, following Route 6 to Provincetown.  Provincetown is a 2.5 hour drive from Boston, and a 5-6 hour drive from New York City.

There is parking at the Portuguese Princess's main ticket booth on Shank Painter Road and on Fishermen's Wharf.  http://www.provincetownwhalewatch.com/directions.htm

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