{"id":5142,"date":"2023-11-21T19:02:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5142"},"modified":"2023-11-21T19:04:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T18:04:36","slug":"its-been-a-long-time-been-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wildlife\/tourism\/its-been-a-long-time-been-a-long-time","title":{"rendered":"It’s been a long time, been a long time…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not sure where the time went, but I just realised it’s nearly two years since I wrote a blog post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the last couple of years our NEWT-related activities have mainly been based around our pelagic season between May and September, delivering events at the Battlesteads Observatory, and still dealing with the backlog of bookings created by the 2020\/2021 lockdowns. Although we haven’t been scheduling tours, we’ve still been delivering them regularly, and we’re thinking about how we add scheduled tours to our calendar again \ud83d\ude42 We’re actually down to the final three trips still remaining to be delivered after delays due to COVID – both ours and our clients – and poor weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as NEWT events, I’ve been leading holidays for two other tour operators and spending May-September since 2021 studying Kittiwakes for Shoney Wind<\/a> as part of the team behind the new ‘Kittiwakery’ artificial nesting structure on the south shore of the Tyne at Saltmeadows. In August this year I was part of the wildlife guide\/guest speaker team from Ocean Wildlife Encounters<\/a>, on a cruise from Dover to the Faroe Islands via Shetland (and back to Dover via Orkney) and I’ll be doing more guiding with OWE going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the thing I’m planning to do much more often though is write blog posts, so they’ll be covering our tours, photography, cruise guiding, Kittiwakes and, of course, dolphins \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Northern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon ampullatus<\/em>, Kaldbaksfjord, Streymoy, Faroe Islands 10\/08\/2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not sure where the time went, but I just realised it’s nearly two years since I wrote a blog post! For the last couple of years our NEWT-related activities have mainly been based around our pelagic season between May and September, delivering events at the Battlesteads Observatory, and still dealing with the backlog of bookings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northern-bottlenose-whale","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5146,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}