Chris Farrell

Chris Farrell has spent the last 35 years every winter looking for & enjoying the Whales that visit the coastline of Australia.

In the early 2000’s, he started going up in light aircraft to capture whales from the air & actively contribute to the South East Australia Southern Right Whale Pic catalogue for Victoria.

He became more active with the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia in 2012 as an accredited fundraiser through sales of his merchandise.

In 2015 he completed aerial images of the entire coastline of Victoria & found his first 2 Southern Right Whales that had not been recorded previously for the SEA SRW pic catalogue. Since then, he has discovered many more via his self-funded aerials and via land/boat-based photography.

In 2016, he was asked to be involved in a series of Mammal, Reptile and Bird guides with Peter Rowland and is co-author of “A Naturalist Guide to the Reptiles of Australia’, ‘A Naturalist Guide to the Mammals of Australia’ and ‘Australia’s Birdwatching Megaspots’ – all endowed by the Australia Geographic.

In 2021, he acquired his first ecotourism property to protect Woodland birds in the Wangaratta area.

Chris is planning to photograph more of the Australian coastline in search of Southern Right Whales for the SWIFFT WhaleFace pic catalogue https://www.SWIFFT.net.au/WhaleFace/

He also helps via talks and his Facebook group ‘Whale watchers South East Australia’

Chris has been involved with the Island Whale Festival since its inception.