Whale Camp Activities

Make new friends. Together, raise the sails on our fifty-foot schooner. Help plot the course. Sit in the captain's chair. Check the compass to stay on course. Eat good food. Photograph the rarest species of whale in the world. Learn about current whale research. Track and research whales, marine mammals and birds. Play soccer and volleyball with your friends. Research tide-pool ecology. Watch bald eagles, hawks, and rare seabirds. Watch marine biologists and island fishermen free a trapped whale or porpoise from fishing nets. Photograph puffins at close range. Row in an island cove with puffins just feet away. Help a professional ornithologist catch and band colorful songbirds.

SAIL the 50-foot schooner, D'Sonoqua, with Captain James Bates. Help haul the lines and experience the excitement of sailing the clear blue sea.

EXPLORE the world of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and sharks. Study their behavior as they thrive in their natural habitat.

Help build a campfire by the beach with your friends. Kayak with seals and porpoises. Watch whales feed and see what they eat. Learn oceanography research at sea. Throw frisbee on the beach with your friends. Laugh, alot! See live marine animals on a live video camera as they live on the bottom of the sea just below the boat. Hold living sea stars and and sea cucumbers in your hand. See more stars than you ever have. See the rare Right Whales in their rare mating dance. Draw and paint pictures. Write poetry and stories. Kayak along cliffs where peregrine falcons nest. Take pictures of your friends doing goofy stuff. Hike coastal trails as the waves crash onto the rocks below. Pick and eat fresh wild blueberries, strawberries and blackberries. Hike past an old broken down lighthouse and boat graveyard to visit an Indian graveyard.

STUDY the rarest whale in the world, the North Atlantic Right Whale, with Marine Biologist Laurie Murison, manager of the Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station.

PHOTOGRAPH rare North Atlantic Puffins and Razorbill Auks on their secluded nesting colony, Machias Seal Island.

Check out carnivorous plants at a living bog next to a lake. Dissect a shark. Observe marine biologists as they dissect a porpoise to check it for disease and pollution. See marine biologists aboard "The Song of the Whale" do whale song research. Talk with marine biologists about the courses they take in college and how they set up their summer research projects. Hike a little too much and get tired. Run barefoot through the cold water on a hot beach with your friends. Eat Sandra's great cookies and fudge. Sleep out under the stars in a field by the beach. Count the shooting stars. Watch the whales in the sunset from a cliff by the sea with your new friends.

KAYAK along magnificent cliffs amid porpoises, seals, and nesting Peregrin Falcons. Please note that Kayaking is optional KAYAKS

and is for an additional charge of $62.

HIKE Grand Manan's majestic coastline and learn about island ecology and geology.

TOUR the shoreline aboard the 50-foot research vessel "Sea View" as our scuba diver BALD EAGLE

plunges to the sea floor with video camera in hand to show you the living creatures under the waves. Feel the thrill as she returns to the deck with live specimens for you to touch, study and return unharmed to their ocean home.

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