twelfth annual contest to foretell Hawaii’s first humpback whale sighting of the brand new season

Although the height of Hawaii’s exciting humpback whale season runs from January by means of March, some humpbacks arrive a bit earlier. How a lot earlier? Effectively, we need to hear your greatest guess in our twelfth annual contest to foretell the primary humpback sighting!

This yr’s prize on this enjoyable little contest is a paperback guide of 125 Enjoyable Info About Humpbacks by Paul Forestell and Gregory Kaufman. The winner is not going to solely have bragging rights, but additionally they’ll have the ability to impress their family and friends with their new humpback whale data.

Right here’s how this enjoyable and straightforward little contest works:

• Decide the earliest date you suppose the primary whale sighting can 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. If you’re studying this text on e mail, go to this post page to enter your remark.)
  • When coming into your remark, you need to use a sound e mail deal with within the e mail area in order that we will contact you when/in case your prediction is appropriate. Word that your e mail deal with will not be seen with the remark.
  • When coming into your remark, you’ll be able to go away the URL/web site area empty. That’s an non-compulsory area so that you can use if in case you have your personal web site.
  • Word: if you’re a first-time commenter, your remark will first go into moderation. It might as much as 12 hours for us to be alerted. As soon as we’re alerted to it, we’ll approve it, then it can show.

• The closest prediction with out going over will win bragging rights and the small prize.
• Within the occasion of a tie, we’ll 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 individual can be accepted.
• Anybody from around the globe is eligible to enter. We now have a two-time winner from Italy.
• Entries can be accepted by means of September 15, 2021.  Within the occasion that the primary whale sighting is earlier than September 15, legitimate entries can be accepted by means of the day earlier than the reported sighting.

On 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 suppose the primary humpback whale sighting can be this yr?