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Whale On Cable Beach

Ideas for 2010 Kimberley Whale Festival.

Put on your thinking caps and send us your ideas for the 2010 Kimberley Whale Festival. With this year's Whale Festival co-ordinated in a mere three weeks, we now have a whole year to plan for next year's festival, which is sure to be even bigger and better.

Kimberley Whale Festival Photos

Kimberley Whale Festival a Great Success

The Inaugural Kimberley Whale Festival held in Broome on the 7th of June 2009 was a great success, with hundreds of Broome locals involved on the day.

Events started at Cable Beach with approximately 200 people forming the word Kimberley and the shape of a whale for an aerial photo, and continued outside the surfclub with a whale song listening post, face painting and photos for the IFAW "Tails for Whales" project.

The childrens' art competition at the Boulevarde produced some stunning entries. Judging was difficult with some entries tied for places.

Matso's Broome Brewery provided the a sausage sizzle and the venue for the Fish Cake Cook-off, with local home and professional chefs serving up a tasty array of fish cakes of all descriptions. Judging was tight, and some swinging Sunday Session music ensured that the event will certainly be on the calendar for next year.

Events wrapped up with whale films under the stars on the grass near the Surf Club back at Cable Beach.

Hundreds of People turn up for Human Whale on Cable Beach.

Hundreds of people turned up this morning to form a human whale on Cable Beach. A sea of blue marked out the whale with the words "Kimberley" spelt out above the whale.

Kimberley Whale Festival 2009 - Schedule.

Come and join us for a great day out on Sunday the 7th of June. Click on the image to expand the schedule.

Winner of First Whale Photo of the Year Competition!

Alice Ralston from Broome is the proud winner of the 2009 "First Whale Photo of the Year" competition run by The Broome Advertiser and Kimberley Whale Watching (Kimberley Whales).

Alice wins a whale photo on canvas by local researcher and photographer Annabelle Sandes. Alice spotted the first whale 15 nautical miles off Broome on Sunday 28th May 2009 at 2.28pm.

Congratulations Alice!

Calling all Chefs and Home Chefs Alike!!!

Calling all chefs and home-chefs alike!

Think you can cook the best fish cakes in town??!!
Well here’s your chance to prove it!
Dig out that favourite recipe, give it some creative pizzazz and join us down at Matsos Broome Brewery this Sunday, June 7th for the first ever Fish Cake Cook-Off as part of the
Inaugural Kimberley Whale Festival!!

Bring your ingredients pre-prepped and ready to cook on-site at Matsos….BBQ’s/cookers provided.
Great prizes to be won - kindly donated by Eco Beach Wilderness Retreat and Sentosa Whale Watching Charters - along with the Inaugural Fish Cake Cook-Off Trophy!

Registration from 12 noon at Matsos with the Cook-off beginning at 1:30pm sharp!

Live music all afternoon and sausage sizzle also kindly provided by Matsos Broome Brewery.
See you there!

First possible whale sighting of the year!

Odyssey, a local Broome charter boat spotted three large shapes on the radar this morning off Point Columb at 6.15am. Richard Costin, naturalist and cruise director on Odyssey, believes that the shapes may have been whales.

Keep your eyes peeled, and get out your cameras as Kimberley Whale Watching are running a competition with the Broome Advertiser for the first Kimberley whale photo of the season. The prize is a large whale photo on canvas. Photos must be taken with a digital camera and include metadata with the time and date. Good luck!

Volunteers welcome for Kimberley Whale Festival

Volunteers welcome for the whale festival! Contact Fiona Galloway on (08) 9195 5503 or Annabelle Sandes at kimberleywhales@bigpond.com.

Kimberley Cetaceans.

All eyes are on Kimberley waters for the first sightings of Humpback whales for 2009.

First sightings for 2008 were at the end of May, so the whales are due to turn up any day now! Recent sightings of cetaceans off Broome include False Killer Whales, Pilot Whales and Spinner Dolphins.

The Broome Advertiser and Kimberley Whale Watching are running a competition for the first whale photo of the season to kick off the Kimberley Whale Festival. Get out your cameras!

Kimberley Whale Festival 2009

Join us in Broome on the 7th of June to celebrate the arrival of the world's largest population of Humpback whales.

Beginning on Cable Beach, we will form a life-sized human whale for an aerial photograph. Listen to whale song, have your face painted, and stake out your own whale tail for our IFAW whale tail project, and be photographed for "Tails for Whales" to help protect Humpback whales. View your photos on our web site.

Join us at the Boulevarde Shopping Centre for thechildrens' whale art competition, and adults' whale photography competition, both with great prizes.

In the afternoon, join us for a fish cake cook-off at Matso's with wonderful prizes, a sausage sizzle, Sunday Session music, and finally a picnic, wildlife and whale films on the grass at Cable Beach.

A great family day out!

Sponsored by Kimberley Whale Watching, Sentosa Charters and The Department of Environment and Conservation (Broome).

Special thanks to local Kimberley businesses; Eco Beach, Broome Heliocopters, Printing Ideas, The Kimberley Bookshop, Matso's and Monsoon Gallery.