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Diving shop Ellisella of Zamami Island Kerama Islands@@Okinawa@@Japan |
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It's Whale Watching in the sea of Zamami, Kerama Islands, Okinawa !! |
| Season of Whale Watching @@From the middle of January to the end of March | |
| Humpback whales return for breeding and child care in Zamami sea area from December to April. | |
| Visitors can enjoy an action having the force that Humpback whales perform. | Photo Gallery [E] |
| Size of a Humpback whale is about 15 meters in length, and about 30t in weight. | |
| In 1991, Zamami Whale Watching Association started. | |
| Whale Watching is executed based on the self-imposed rules made in the Zamami Whale Watching Association. | |
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| The song of the Humpback whales.@It publishes only for the first nine minutes of a long song. | |||
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Hisao Miyahira@[Captain of the boat gEllisellah] |
| Humpback Whales have once disappeared from Zamami sea area after the whaling period, but they started to come back again around 1985. | |
| I'm one of the few members who have been watching and researching the whales for the last 39 years. |
| The Whale Watching boat departs from a port when the situation of the weather and the sea is good. | |
| Please embark after it acknowledges it can not necessarily do watching by 100%. |
| y Whale Watching boat tour fee z@Consumption tax is included in the price | ||||
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| @@In one Whale Watching time, it is two hours. | ||||
| y Whale Watching schedule z | |
| 09:00`09:50 | @Queen Zamami@@from Tomari Port North Pier to Zamami Port terminal |
| 09:50`10:30 | @The staff waits in a Zamami Port terminal. @Whale Watching embarkation list entry. |
| 10:30`13:00 | @Whale Watching boat tour time |
| 13:00`16:20 | @Free time |
| 16:20`17:10 | @Queen Zamami@@from Zamami Port terminal to Tomari Port North Pier |
| y A reservation method of Whale Watching boat z | |
| @You contact a shop doing Whale Watching directly and make reservations. | Reservation Inquiry [E] |
| y Whale Watching in Zamami village z |
| @It is not a translation that it can meet the Humpback whale in a wide sea because it departed from a port. |
| @@E The whale watching of the Zamami village starts from the whale observatory
on the north side of the @@@@Zamami island. |
| @@E It looks for the blow of the Humpback whale that surfaces to the surface of the sea with binoculars. |
| @@E When the blow is found, the whale watching boat is induced by using the wireless for the place. |
| y Attention z |
| @¦ Because as for the sea of the winter the day when the wave is rough it
is many, the one which is weak @@@in the vehicle please becomes drunk and drinks the setting agent ahead of time. |
| @¦ As for the skirt and the high-heeled shoe avoiding if possible, please
embark with the dress which is easyto @@@move. |
| @¦ The sea to be a wind, because it is cold, please embark with the dress
which can produce the windbreak @@@and protection against the cold.@(The windbreaker or the raincoat is effective. ) |
| y Whale Watching sea area Map z | |
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| y self-imposed rules for Whale Watching z |
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| English Top page | Shop guidance [E] | Access to Zamami Is. [E] | Reservation Inquiry [E] | Link |
| Scuba Diving [E] | Discover Scuba Diving [E] | Whale Watching [E] | Photo Gallery [E] | Zamami Island Map [E] |