Robyn and Wade Hughes

Robyn and Wade are frequent visitors of Pico Island and work with sperm whales in the Mid Atlantic.
Wade Hughes began diving as a 12-year-old in Australia and has since dived around the world. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Member of the Explorers Club. Read his book, The Thirteenth Beach.
And read his book about the sperm whales of Pico.....

Wayne Osborne and the whales

Wayne Osborne took this wonderfull picture of a spermwhale calv drinking milk from the mother. There is no better picture of a situation like this.....It´s a special year at Pico. We have so many birthgivings around the island....a meeting point of the whales......

the best picture ever

Wade Hughes is back in new York. He took this wonderfull picture of a sperm whale pod last week at Pico. This is the best picture i have ever seen of sperm whales under water..........
Wade works with Pico Sport and the Sperm Whales of the Azores since 2005.
He recently published a book which tells a fiction story about he whales and the people of the Azores.
Title is: The Whales of Sao Marco



more information about the books of Wade Hughes at
www.thirteenthbeach.com

No Words

As promissed here are the pictures of Wayne Osborne from the yesterday encounter.

The bull is too close and touches the camera housing softly.



A Mother with the new born baby....only some hours old....




The bull and Wade Hughes.....a special meeting



Pico Sport brings professionals to the whales.....we hope to send a message around the world with pictures like this. Thank you Wade and Wayne to support us and help the whales.....G R E A T J O B .

Professionals at Pico again

The Australian Professionals are back at Pico.
Like every year Wayne Osborne and Wade Hughes come to Pico to work with sperm whales.
They arrived Saturday at noon. As the weather was excellent we departed at 15:00 to check out a group of sperm whales close to Madalena........a good decission because they got the very rare situation of a social meeting...The Magarita flower.

Wayne Osborne made 460 nautical miles looking for Moby Dick.

We reported already about Wayne Osborne and Wade Hughes beeing with us again this year. We are thankfull for the data tracks they transmitted. You can see the miles they made and where we worked. Not logged are the uncounted drops into the water and the climbs on board that are necessary to get excellent pictures like this.


















There are 27 recorded species of Cetacea recorded in Azorean waters. This is a meeting point for whales and dolphins and us. Sometimes the encounters are inbelievable. These wonderfull creatures allow us to visit them in their home. They excist since more than 60 Millions of years on this planet while human beeings have been recordet not older than 1.5 Millions. While they allow us to be with them without agressions and harm, we distroy their habitat. We say that we love them so much but we kill them. We polute their world and we allow upcomming countrys to do so.




Wayne Osborne signed up for a wildlife safari that start next January 17th in our new Rhino Watch Safari Lodge in Kenya. Its a meeting of some great photographers at that time and i am sure we will be able to present you in February some wonderfull pictures. Contact us if you want to join us at Pico, in Kenya or in Patagonia.