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Big Blue March

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Carcavelos + Baleal + Azores (Portugal)

BLUE! Light blue, dark blue, baby blue, clean blue, smiley blue, what mattered was to wear something in blue, wasn’t it the day of the BIG BLUE MARCH. An event taking place around the world with a single purpose to send a message to the 72 governments gathered at Anchorage, Alaska for the 59th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the body that regulates and manages the whaling activity around the world. The IWC meeting takes place from the 28th to 31st of May, 2007.

The day here was cloudy and rainy, and since most actions were planned for beach sites, it was going to dictate how successful we would be. Plus, there was an important football game on; the final of the Portuguese Cup, in which of the teams had a blue uniform, so some of the people involved in the big blue march were thought to be supporters from that same team.

The Portuguese leg of the Big Blue March was divided into 3 fronts; one at Baleal, Peniche; another at Carcavelos, Lisbon; and other at Ponta Delgada, Azores.

PICA

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Ricardo Antunes (my personal friend and cetology guru) and me are implementing a project in the Azores named PICA (Projecto de Investigação para o Cachalote dos Açores) that in Portuguese means Research Program for the Sperm whale of the Azores. It is focused on the temporal and geographic variation of sperm whale acoustic clans and well as behaviour.
We will conduct a set of practical courses in acoustics & ethology during the next month of September (2005).
The date for the practical courses will be:
01-15 September 2005
16-30 September 2005
Courses will be held in English.
Practical course – max. 4 participants (per course).
Details on the courses and other information can be requested through the e-mail: physeter_m@yahoo.com
A website and more information will be soon available — watch this space!

What is the next move, in this chess game?

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Time is a strange thing… I remember like it was yesterday when I landed in Cardiff International Airport coming from Amesterdam. Huw and Slippy were there waiting for me as part of the University of Glamorgan fresher(s) welcoming committee to take me to Treforest. Three years have passed without me taking any notice, there are so many things I’ve done since my arrival, so many doors that opened in the meanwhile… it is hard to absorb everything – the stimulus I received were so many and so diverse. Now I wonder what to do next; part of it I already know but now so many I see so many paths and t-junctions that I need to feel which one to take, which one to walk on… next stage is the green western islands of the Azorean Archipelago. There I hope to find some more answers, and to be filled up of energy, peace, strenght and love. I need to feel, I need to see … where did I first breathe? What move to do next?