Ocean Explorations Zodiac Whale Adventures

09/08/2024

Honoured (?)

I've been 'cloned' - NO, i didn't sent you a 'friend request'

07/01/2022

Thanks for all your interest and Good Night!

Happy Canada Day!

Sunset of my career, and Ocean Explorations.

Sadly we will not operate in 2022, and perhaps be winding down for good. Personal health reasons (having problems with an eye, including 2 surgeries this winter., Also reduced 'stamina' now ... or because mid 60s, it is 'catching up with me?). There are many, many reasons, big and small to call it a day. We have moved even further away into our new 'forever' SOLAR passiv 'net zero' home on the Bay of Fundy shore, up in the wonderful village of Port. George. I'll continue to keep an eye out for the sporadic whales that pass by here, and I'm a SEAL watcher now, they are swimming by our shoreline frequently.

I had a buyer pre-covid and it all crashed ... made it through pandemic and now potential buyers aren't able to get liability insurance as a new policy. A LOT of problems and price escalations upward, for those IN business. If you are IN the (or any) business involving 'risk' - the whole insurance industry is changing a lot. Even the brokers don't understand what is going on. Colleagues have been warned, if they have a claim, they might not get renewed.

40 years of whale-guiding, I'm a bit disappointed with the 'exit', originally planned as 2020 being my 'grand finale'. I'm leaving the business, with great concern(s) about the future for ALL life on the planet with this climate EMERGENCY, a lot of 'hypocritical' of/for our consumptive lifestyle(s), including my own. I just hope some (if not all) have gained appreciation for the other species we share the planet with. Please take CLIMATE CHANGE seriously, for the sake of the millions of species we are 'taking down' with us.

Environmentally yours,

(Captain/biologist) Tom Goodwin

*** UPDATE: August - we have found new insurance provider outside the region, so Ocean Explorations MAY live on! ... stay tuned! ***