Sea Watch at the South Wales Boat Show

From Friday 17th June to Sunday 19th June, Danielle, Katrin and Rachel were in Swansea representing the Sea Watch Foundation at the South Wales Boat Show. Despite spending the majority of Friday preventing the gazebo from carrying out an escape act, the weekend was successful in terms of meeting boat operators that could report sightings to us.




We arrived in Swansea on Friday and were greeted by rain and wind which meant that a limited number of people visited the show that day. After setting up our gazebo and stand we spent the rest of the day preventing the display items from flying away in the wind. The horizontal rain also meant that the items, and ourselves, got a little bit soaked! The weather was however an excellent conversation starter and allowed us to get to know some of the other exhibitors.

The sun finally broke through on Saturday and we were able to fully set up our stand as originally planned.




The sunny weather held through to Sunday and on both days the better weather attracted more visitors. Several people visited our stand and asked us general questions throughout the day and we even got a chance to practice our face-painting skills. The weekend was far more successful in terms of boat owners/fishing-boat operators talking to us about their encounters and offering to report any future sightings to us. These valuable sighting reports will be used to monitor whales, dolphins and porpoises around the U.K. which in turn will be used to conserve and protect these vulnerable species.

Sightings should be sent to sightings@seawatchfoundation.org.uk or entered online using the online sightings form found on the Sea Watch Foundation website, www.seawatchfoundation.org.uk.

Sea Watch Foundation Team