The Takeaway's Oliver Lazarus interviews Gotham Whale founder Paul Siesweirda
Congratulations to the folks at Gotham Whale on an excellent radio piece on The Takeaway, a show produced by our local NPR station WNYC. I'd actually meant to do a couple more posts about my November 5th whalewatching trip on the American Princess; I didn't get any very good whale photos but there were a couple of very interesting activities on board, one of which was Takeaway producer Oliver Lazarus gathering material for this show!
Click here to listen. I was a little disappointed that my friend John (the storm chaser kayaking friend I mentioned in my last post) didn't make it in, but having to condense a four hour boat ride down to ten minutes meant having to focus pretty tightly on the aspects they chose to feature. I think they did a great job of giving the listener a real sense of what it's like to be part of one of these amazing NYC whalewatching excursions - and I so admired the eloquence of fellow passenger Edie!
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Have you done this? How common is it to see whales? The one time I ever took a whale watching trip we were skunked.
Let's see -
4 times in 2017
First time with Patricia Sener, who was then inspired to swim across the NY bight as a fundraiser - whales!
Next time with TQ and a friend and her son - whales!
Once with Sebago friends - absolute skunkage, hardly even any birds.
Once with my Antarctic kayak guide friend Louise - no whales but a huge pod of hunting dolphins
And twice this year, both times with whales.
So for the trips I've been on, 83% success rate if a giant pod of dolphins count (they did to me).
Never any guarantees but they have a pretty good success rate. Plus, the time I went that we saw nothing, they handed out cards for 20% off your next trip.
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