The venue for this Workshop was the comfortable old Provincetown Inn at the water's edge in Provincetown. The staff and administrators were unfailingly helpful and accommodating, arranging for unexpected needs quickly and cheerfully (miles of cables to hook up laptop computers, the sudden request for an easel and writing board, a critical need for a Macintosh program). Gary Knop, Matt Monroe and all of the people at the Inn have the thanks of Workshop.
Participants and observers were treated to a series of culinary pleasures during the entire Workshop. Meals at the Provincetown Inn accommodated the varying tastes of an international group with fine results. Dinners were taken at Napi's (Napi and Helen Van Derek donated part of the dinner), The Mews, The Lobster Pot, Lorraine's, and at Clem & Joe's. It was the consensus of the Workshop that Provincetown is rightly acclaimed for its restaurants.
Thanks are due to the Avellar family, whose Dolphin Fleet was the flagship whale watching operation on the East Coast of the United States. They once again knew where the whales were. When Workshop attendees went whale watching they were treated to the sight of known (and one unknown) humpback whales including a series of breaches by a juvenile humpback in the path of a blood-orange setting sun, saw a number of fin whales in interesting aggregations, and minke whales (not to mention a jeager that robbed a tern of a fish as we watched).
Nancy Flasher at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown supplied materials and arranged for displays of whale watching information and education materials. Participants and observers also contributed samples of promotional materials, education and popular science materials, and visual arts on whale watching.
The Steering Committee is grateful to its member, Carole Carlson, for arranging all the amenities. It also thanks Alison Smith, Erich Hoyt and Kate O'Connell for their seemingly endless fund of names and addresses. They are very busy people who were generous with their time. Betty Curry at IFAW handled the maze of airline, car and hotel reservations with aplomb and a smile.
Funding for the Workshop was provided by The International Fund for Animal Welfare, with additional assistance from the World Wildlife Fund and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
It was, finally, the participants themselves who made the Workshop a success. They were knowledgeable, compatible, generous with their expertise, hard-working and courteous. The chemistry among people at the Workshop was unusually pleasant and exuberant.
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