Get Your Sighting In!

National Whale and Dolphin Watch week (7th - 15th August 2010) took off with a flying start on Saturday. Sea Watch volunteers were busy celebrating the start of the event with sand sculptures down on New Quay beach, Wales with further fun activities up on the pier wall.



Down on the beach the imagination was running free with a pod of bottlenose dolphins (Dolphina, Fin and Charlie) chasing fish with their calf Sophie, while Octo the octopus was trying his luck at catching Kate the crab. Meanwhile S.S.N. - the lost narwhale was busy trying to retrace his course back to the Artic.





Thanks to all the enthusiastic children who busily created amazing sculptures with us!



Up on the pier, joined by Bella the Bear (http://adventuresofedthebear.blogspot.com/) Sea Watch volunteers and children alike decorated themselves with aquatic inspired face painting, with colouring competitions and the resident bottlenose dolphins providing more entertainment for New Quay visitors.



Four days into the watch and we've received an astounding 100 sightings with an incredibly early 04:42am sighting of a minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) by Kevin Hepworth North East of Fraserburgh in Scotland! Check out our sightings webpage for the latest real time entries (http://www.seawatchfoundation.org.uk/event-data2010.php).

Our dedicated Sea Watch team will continue to be down on the pier and out and about around New Quay, and with many other voluntary manned watches going on around the country please feel free to join in! Check out our website for more details.

Go on get your sighting in!

Sea Watch Foundation Team
www.seawatchfoundation.org.uk