CRESLI 2012 Great South Channel whale and pelagic bird trip



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2012 Great South Channel trip

August 12-14, 2012

2012 Offshore Whale and Pelagic Bird Trip Reservations

The vessel:

Viking Starship (140 foot LOA), leaving from the Viking Landing in Montauk Harbor. Parking available for the duration of your trip.

Sleeping accommodations:

Open bunks on the main and lower decks; sleeping bags are suggested

Meals:

Excellent food can be purchased from the galley, or bring your own food.

August 12-14, 2012

(51 hours)

Great South Channel

Leave Montauk at 6:30 PM on August 12, 2012 and head to Martha’s Vineyard (MV) to pick up (and drop off) passengers. We expect to arrive at Oak Bluffs in Martha’s Vineyard at around 12:30 AM on 8/13 we leave MV at 1:00 AM and proceed to the GSC.
We should reach the whale grounds around day break, spend the next 24 hours amongst the whales and birds of the GSC.
The following morning, we will have the option of either remaining on the whale grounds, or returning early to Martha’s Vineyard for land-based birding, hiking, or other activities. The vessel will ultimately depart Martha’s Vineyard at 4:30 PM on 8/14 and return to Montauk at 9:30 PM on 8/14/2012.

100% success on our Offshore Whale and Pelagic Bird trips

We have now encountered 643 humpbacks in our 11 trips to the Great South Channel. With the assistance of the Whale Center of New England, we have photo-identified 256 different whales during these trips.

Expectations:

Cetaceans: Humpback, Fin, Minke, Right; Sei, and Pilot whales; Common, Bottlenose, Atlantic White Sided and Risso’s Dolphins; Leatherback, Green and Loggerhead Turtles; Basking, Great White, Hammerhead, and Blue Sharks; Bluefin, Yellowfin, and Bigeye Tuna; White Marlin; Ocean Sunfish; Portuguese Man-of-War; and other marine life.

Birds: Cory’s, Greater, Sooty, Manx, and Audubon’s Shearwaters; Wilson’s and Leach’s Storm-Petrels; Northern Fulmar; Northern Gannet; Red-necked and Red Phalaropes; Pomarine, and Parasitic Jaegers; South Polar Skua; Greater Black-backed, Herring, Bonaparte’s Gulls.

2011 offshore trip to STELLWAGEN

August 14-16, 2011

Another Extraordinary trip

73 individual humpback whales were sighted; 9 are unknown and 64 were identified inclusing 38 new ones for our trips. This bring the total of identified whales to 254; and the total # of sightings over 11 trips to 643.

ID Photos from 8/15/11

Breaches from 8/15/11

Bubble feeding humpbacks 8/16/11

photos from the 2010 Great South Channel trip

Photo-Gallery of identified humpbacks from all trips 2002-11

August 12-14, 2012
	Adult (13 and older)	Child (7-12)	Child (under 6)
CRESLI MEMBER	$275	$137.50	NO CHARGE
NON-MEMBER	$300	$150.00	NO CHARGE

2012 Great South Channel reservations

CRESLI biologists will be joined by biologists from the Whale Center of New England and other organizations, to provide expertise regarding identification of individual humpbacks of the Gulf of Maine stock.

Departure point: The Viking Dock at Montauk Harbor, Montauk, NY

Destination: Offshore pelagic birds and whale watch trips to the Great South Channel.

Trip lengths: 51 hours

Trip organizer: Dr. Arthur Kopelman for CRESLI

Reservations are required and must be made via the CRESLI website reservations page, follow the links for the offshore pelagic bird and whale cruises.

Click here to see sighting reports and photographs from previous years .

Click here for a chart showing our destinations.
Click here for information about what to bring.
Click here to see the bunk room and the main cabin
Click here for an interactive map and directions to the Viking Landing in Montauk Harbor.

Comments: The vessel is the 140’ Viking Starship that can sleep up to 65 passengers in navy style bunks. Excellent food will be available at reasonable prices. Passengers may bring their own food as well. The trips will be led by a seasoned marine mammal biologist and professor. Volunteers from CRESLI will assist in photo-identification spotting and data collection.