Frida Elba
- Member since
- 5th July 2007
Recently graduated Marine Biologist, Frida Elba has had a life long fascination with marine life, particularly whales. Before completing her qualifications, Frida spent several years working for wildlife orientated boat tour companies in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Norway. Her career goal is to run marine life appreciation tours for aspiring marine biologists and volunteer animal lovers in the same vein as volunteer digs for archeology enthusiasts. She hopes this will have an effect on both the animals she is working to conserve and the people who give their time.
- 06 Nov 2007
Frida Elba reviewed Orcas at Tysfjord in Vestlandet, Norway

For killer whale (orca) sightings there is no where better than Tysfjord in Norway. Many researchers come here to study the orcas so there is an opportunity to join a scientific party and help with tagging etc. which can be an entirely wonderful experi…"

Whales come to feed off Olafasvik and the Snaefellsnes Peninsula off Iceland’s west coast during the summer months. North Atlantic whales like humpbacks, but mostly blue whales come visiting in the summer but the usual inhabitants are minkes, sperm wha…"

For animal lovers with an adventurous streak, this stark, angular backdrop of glaciers, icebergs, mountain peaks and unpredictable seas provides the perfect wilderness setting for whale and wildlife watching. Fin, sei, humpback, orca, and minke whales l…"
- 09 Jul 2007

This is a very natural, unspoilt location for whale watching. The islands and coastline surrounding the bay is a wilderness, and the tides are the world's most variable - in some places up to 14 metres difference (the literature says one hundred billion…"

For European whale watchers who don’t like the cold of the arctic the Ligurian Sea in the Mediterranean is probably the best option. The basin and the Pelagos Sanctuary is rich in nutrients and has a high concentration of plankton and smaller fish which…"

Hervey Bay calls itself the whale watching capital of the world, which may be an overstatement, but it is definitely one of the most popular whale watching spots. It’s on the migration route for Humpbacks between the cold waters of the Antarctic a…"

Something in the area of twenty different cetacean species have been spotted of the coasts of the Azores archipelago, but the most famous locals are probably the sperm whales. Sperm whales were hunted to extinction in the area but the clean water and go…"
- 05 Jul 2007
Frida Elba reviewed Whale watch Jervis Bay in New South Wales, Australia

This coastline has been turned into a marine park to help protect the whale migration that passes through annually across the mouth of Jervis Bay and the resident ocean birds and pods of bottlenose dolphins who live here all year round.
Jervis Bay is…"

This beautiful coastal region fringed with fjords, glaciers and arctic mountain scenery is a pristine whale watching setting. The ocean around Tromso is deep near the continental shelf, and the churning waters there create a breeding ground for whale fo…"