'Whale Watching in Bermagui' Artist: Narelle Perroux
S.V. Pelican1 is a story ship - whose journeys are not just physical dalliances across the ocean, but journeys through cultural, traditional and scientific seascapes of immense beauty and importance.
We are here to keep 'Sea Country' alive.
🐋 Sail With The Whales 🐋
Leaving from Pelican1's home port, Bermagui. Sails start From September 15th 2018-
View to Mt Gulaga from Pelican1 as she sails out of Bermagui.
Explore local National parks on your whale watching trip to Bermagui- Mimosa National Park is just a little South of Bermagui.
Celebrating 14 years of Two Bays
2006-2019
November 2018
Port Phillip and Western Port support a range of highly important ecosystems and habitats, a diverse and range of animals and plants, and provide many environmental, social and economic benefits to Victorians.
The bays are an important part of the cultural heritage for the Kulin people and continue to be the focus for a wide range of cultural activities and endeavours.
The future health of our two bays depends on the way in which we use and manage our catchments. There are also many risks to the marine environment posed by climate change.
Two Bays provides a unique opportunity for bay managers and stakeholders to build knowledge, engage coastal communities, form partnerships to better understand and protect bay values, and to highlight the our links with bay health. The program is designed to develop deeper cross-collaboration and knowledge sharing while at the same time gathering and sharing data about the health of the Bays. The program has created a unique curriculum based on the science and traditional knowledge of both bays. We are working with a number of Catholic Primary schools on integrating our Ocean Literacy program with their school curriculum. This year we are planning to focus on marine pests, accoustic ecology, Ocean Literacy, water quality (micro plastics) and climate change. If you are interested in partnering or participating please contact Natalie Davey at Saltwater Projects: saltwaterproj@optusnet.com.au
Photo by Chris Hayward
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Two Bays February 2016
Port Phillip & Westernport Bay, VIC
Hopevale, September 2015
Cooktown, QLD
IFAW Whale Survey, April 2013
Kangaroo Island, SA
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July 2018. Pelican1 is in her home berth in Bermagui, getting ready for the whale watching season.
IPMEN 2018 was hosted by the National Taiwan University, whose President Ching-Fong Chang was a representative organizer. Thanks too, to the great efforts of the Taiwan Marine Education Centre (and all the volunteers), led by Director, Cheng-Chien Chang.
I have been fortunate to participate in five IPMEN conferences over the last 12 years and each has been an enlightening experience. The conferences have developed a Pacific ocean-wide community of educators and participants, who come away with fresh insights into marine education from around the Pacific and deeper knowledge about the particular place that holds the conference. I was determined to travel to Taiwan, as Pelican1, the vessel we built and still work on, has a cultural affiliation to the home of migrating Austronesian people - these people built and traveled in the vessels that ended up settling across the entire Pacific Ocean. This wave of migration began over 3,500 years ago from Taiwan and nearby and our voyaging modern double-hulled catamaran was designed partly in homage to this history.