{"id":3096,"date":"2019-06-21T09:28:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T09:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T09:28:29","slug":"whale-of-a-day-set-to-mark-nautical-showpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/06\/21\/whale-of-a-day-set-to-mark-nautical-showpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale of a day set to mark nautical showpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"inner-head\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"inner-desc\">\nNature lovers should mark Sunday week down in their diaries for a whale of a double date.<br \/>\nThis year, the City\u2019s Whale Tales lecture at Bar Beach falls on the same day as an annual tally of humpback whales.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Whaleinside.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Whale-of-a-day-set-to-mark-nautical-showpiece\/Whaleinside.jpg.aspx\" alt=\"Whaleinside.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Whale Tales talks by Marine Naturalist Jeannie Lawson celebrate the gentle giants by canvassing their song, lifecycle and migration.<br \/>\n\u201cOn the day there are four sessions to choose from,\u201d the City\u2019s Program Development Coordinator &#8211; Environment Karenne Jurd said.<br \/>\n\u201cAt each session you will have the opportunity to ask Jeannie your best whale questions and hold part of a whale skeleton while watching the passing humpback parade.\u201d<br \/>\nAn estimated 30,000 humpback whales will swim north to Queensland breeding grounds this season in a nautical migration that\u2019s been growing every year; so much so the Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORRCA) needs help counting the whales.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Whaletales.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Whale-of-a-day-set-to-mark-nautical-showpiece\/Whaletales.jpg.aspx\" alt=\"Whaletales.jpg\" \/><strong>Participants at last year&#8217;s Whale Tale Lecture at Bar Beach<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Whaletales2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Whale-of-a-day-set-to-mark-nautical-showpiece\/Whaletales2.jpg.aspx\" alt=\"Whaletales2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNewcastle&#8217;s Bathers Way coastal pathway offers great vantage point for ORRCA&#8217;s 19th one-day census, which last year saw 2,065 whales spotted, up from 233 in 2002.<br \/>\nFor more information about Whale Tales please call Angus Weingott on 4974 2622 or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:aweingott@ncc.nsw.gov.au\">aweingott@ncc.nsw.gov.au<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor more information about Humpback Whale Census Day visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orrca.org.au\/\">http:\/\/www.orrca.org.au\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Whale Tales<br \/>\nSunday 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June \u2013 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm, 1:00pm<br \/>\nBar Beach Lookout<br \/>\nCost: Free<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature lovers should mark Sunday week down in their diaries for a whale of a double date. 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