Although the height of Hawaii’s exciting humpback whale season runs from January by way of March, some humpbacks arrive a bit earlier. How a lot earlier? Properly, we wish to hear your greatest guess in our 12th annual contest to foretell the primary humpback sighting!
This 12 months’s prize on this enjoyable little contest is a paperback e-book of 125 Enjoyable Info About Humpbacks by Paul Forestell and Gregory Kaufman. The winner is not going to solely have bragging rights, but in addition they’ll have the ability to impress their family and friends with their new humpback whale information.
Right here’s how this enjoyable and simple little contest works:
- Choose the earliest date you assume the primary whale sighting will likely be this coming season. Enter your prediction within the remark part, which is at the bottom of this blog post. (Sorry, however we will’t settle for guesses emailed to us or feedback on Fb. In case you are studying this text on electronic mail, go to this post page to enter your remark.)
- When getting into your remark, you should use a sound electronic mail handle within the electronic mail discipline in order that we will contact you when/in case your prediction is appropriate. Word that your electronic mail handle will not be seen with the remark.
- When getting into your remark, you possibly can go away the URL/web site discipline empty. That’s an non-compulsory discipline so that you can use if in case you have your individual web site.
- Word: if you’re a first-time commenter, your remark will first go into moderation. It could as much as 12 hours for us to be alerted. As soon as we’re alerted to it, we are going to approve it, then it’ll show.
- The closest prediction with out going over will win bragging rights and the small prize.
- Within the occasion of a tie, we are going to randomly choose a winner from the tied predictions.
- We’ll use Hawaii newspapers and information stations as our sources to find out the primary whale sighting of this season.
- One entry per particular person will likely be accepted.
- Anybody from around the globe is eligible to enter. We’ve got a two-time winner from Italy.
- Entries will likely be accepted by way of September 15, 2021. Within the occasion that the primary whale sighting is earlier than September 15, legitimate entries will likely be accepted by way of the day earlier than the reported sighting.
To your reference, right here’s a listing of the first-recorded sightings lately.
2006 – October 11
2007 – October 7
2008 – October 8
2009 – October 20
2010 – October 20
2011 — September 26
2012 — August 30
2013 — October 5
2014 — September 16
2015 — September 29
2016 – August 25
2017 — October 10
2018 — October 8
2019 — October 1
2020 — October 8
So, when do you assume the primary humpback whale sighting will likely be this 12 months?
