Sunny Walter's
Washington State Nature Resources Guide
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Whales, Sea Otters, and Seals
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          • (Whale Watching, Whale Education and Research Links)
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Whales
Whale Watching Links

Westport

  • Gray Whale Watching
  • (The following charters offer gray whale watching trips:
    Bran Lee,  Cacholot,  Coho,  Islander,  Neptune,  Ocean Charters,  Victoria Express-Westport,  Westport & Washington,  Whale Watching Headquarters)
    • Westport-Grayland Chamber of Commerce
    • (list of current whalewatching tours)
      1-888-1195 or 360-452-8088
    San Juan Islands
    • The Whale Museum
    • 62 First Street North,  P.O. Box 945, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
      Museum  or  360-378-4710  or  800-946-7227
    • Whale Watch Operators Association Northwest:  Orca


    Recommended Charters


    Whale Status & Protection

    News


    Protection

     
     
     
     

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    Whale Education and Research Links
    • BlueVoice.org
    • (stories of our communication work with dolphins and ways to help protect whales, dolphins and the marine environment)
    • Center for Biological Diversity
    • Cascadia Research Reports:  Whales
    • (Humpback, Gray and Blue Whale Reports)
    • Center for Whale Research
    • 1359 Smugglers Cove Road, 
      Friday Harbor, WA 98250
      Research  or  360-378-5835
    • Dick Russell, Environmental Journalist
    • (author of the very special book
      Eye of the Whale
    • Enchanted Learning:  ZoomWhale
    • (Gray Whale and Orca fact sheets for kids and adults)
    • Orca Network
    • 2403 S. North Bluff Rd
      Greenbank, WA 98253
      Orca  or  360-678-3451
      (Orca and sea otter sightings)

    Government Whale Links

    • Alaska Department of Fish and Game
      • Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series
      • (6 Whale Species)
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    Harbor Seals, Sea Lions, Sea Otters
    Otter and Seal Web Sites
    • Seal Conservation Society    


       
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    Government Otter and Seal Links
    • Alaska Department of Fish and Game
      • Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series
      • (6 Seal Species, Sea Lion, Sea Otter, Walrus)
    • Washington Dept. of Ecology
    • Puget Sound Shorelines
    Washington Nature Weekends  by Sunny Walter and Janet O'Mara, 
    was published in August, 2001. 
    The following chapters discuss where and when to view seasonal
    whale, sea otter, and harbor seal events:
    Fall
         38  Harbor Seal Pupping in Hood Canal
    Winter
         8    Sea Otters on the Strait and Ocean
    Spring
         11 Gray Whale Migration off Westport
         26  Orcas in the San Juans

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    Links checked and updated on:  July 22, 2004
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