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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
 
Meet Your Guide to the Farallons - Peter Winch

We're happy to have Peter Winch back again this season as our onboard naturalist (ie. wildlife guy) in San Francisco. Peter's the guy who checks you in when you first arrive for your shark adventure. He then gives a quick presentation on the Farallons Islands before grabbing his binoculars and heading out on the deck to start scanning the horizon for sharks and other wonders of nature. Peter has a special way of pointing things out and teaching you a lot, without it seeming like you're back in school.

In his other life, Peter Winch works as the Visitor Center Naturalist for The Farallon Island Marine Sanctuary Association, assisting with the running of the visitor center and their educational program. He has a BS in Environmental Science from Plymouth University, England, and has a background as a scientist and as an educator. After graduating he worked as an environmentalist for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He has studied seabirds in Alaska, Hawaii, Baja Mexico and Oregon for US Fish and Wildlife and The Island Ecology Group, and worked as a naturalist for Oceanic Society Expeditions on Whale Watching Trips off California for five years. A self confessed ocean addict, Peter surfs and dives as often as possible.


This year, Peter is on a mission....he's out to make an even better seal. (Peter is always working to make the decoys used to lure great whites near the boat more successful.)

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