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Mar
18
Whale Festival

Crow's Nest Interpretive Center

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Visit the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center. Open 10AM - 3PM, where we have a beautiful tidepool aquarium, marine mammal exhibits, and whale watching from the deck. On Saturday, 3/18, we have Mendonoma Whale and Seal Study naturalists Scott and Tree Mercer with us from 10A-2P. More info HERE.

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Mar
18
Whale Festival

Mendonoma Whale Count with Scott and Tree Mercer

Join Scott and Tree Mercer, founders of Mendonoma Whale and Seal Study, for gray whale counting from the deck of the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center, and learn more about their important research. (weather permitting).

Scott Mercer began studying marine mammals in 1974, with a lengthy investigation of the feeding ecology of the Southern sea otter in Monterey Bay. Upon returning to his native Northern New England, he founded New England Whale Watch, Inc in 1978. Using his trips as a public education and research platform, Scott was a ”Major Contributor” to the North Atlantic Humpback, North Atlantic finback, and North Atlantic Right Whale Catalogs of Identified Individuals.  He is co-author of The Great Whale Book published in 1982 with colleagues at The University of New Hampshire, where Scott taught a marine mammal class for fourteen years. He also taught science classes for Southern Maine Community College and a shipboard graduate level class for Wheelock College in Boston.   Recently Scott was interviewed by National Marine Fisheries for a documentary on the History of Whale Watching in New England. He is cofounder of a cetacean and seabird research station on Brier Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.  He flew aerial surveys for the New England Aquarium and led trips for Seafarers Expeditions. In 2014, Scott and his wife Theresa (Tree) began the Mendonoma Whale and Seal Study, doing most of their field work from the Point Arena Lighthouse Peninsula. Since 2014, they have investigated the biodiversity of marine mammals on the Sonoma and Mendocino Coasts, including a daily census of the north and south migrations of gray whales. They present their findings at major conferences.

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Mar
16
Whale Festival

Trip to Sea/Whale Watch on the Telstar with Noyo Center Naturalists

Trip to Sea on the Telstar with the Noyo Center for Marine Science

Join us on a 2-hour trip to sea on the Telstar. Noyo Center for Marine Science Naturalists and Telstar Captain Sean Thornton lead this excursion from the harbor out on the Pacific to learn about gray whales and other marine life off our coast. This time of year we should see gray whales and lots of other interesting things along the way, so don’t forget the binoculars.

We will depart from the dock at the Slack Tide Cafe at 10 AM. At 9:30AM one of our naturalists will give an orientation about the trip and tell you about the Happy Whale app for persons interested in learning about that. We will also learn about the WhaleSafe technology now being used to help prevent ship strikes from occurring between whales and ocean vessels.

Tickets are $50 per person. No individuals under 5 years old are allowed on this trip. You will receive a full description of how to prepare for the trip and what to bring with you upon completion of registration.

The Slack Tide Cafe is open from 8AM-3PM, Thursday-Monday, with extended hours on Friday and Saturday until 7PM. We serve an array of breakfast fare, excellent coffee and espresso drinks in the morning to nourish you for the trip. And we are open for lunch, so stick around and hang out after the journey to sea.

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