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Pelican Expeditions · Est. 1998

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Pelican1 in the field.

Images from twenty-seven years of voyages, research, and collaboration across Australian and Pacific waters.

Students aboard Pelican 1 on Port Phillip Bay

School group waving from Pelican 1

Pelican 1 anchored at rocky reef

Students arriving at the marina to board Pelican 1

Swimmers heading out to Pelican 1 for a snorkel session

Two Bays educator group on Pelican 1 deck with Melbourne skyline

Aboriginal flag flying above Pelican 1 — Sea Country voyage

Elder reading on deck of Pelican 1

Two Elders aboard Pelican 1 — Sea Country collaboration

Hope Vale — children swimming and snorkelling beside Pelican 1 in tropical waters

Pelican 1 in tropical waters — Hope Vale country

Hope Vale community children

“Pelican sails away” — song by Aunty Dora, Hopevale / Cape Flattery

Two Bays — students on deck with Melbourne skyline

Ocean Literacy class aboard Pelican 1

Ocean Literacy class with globe in field tent

Two Bays students on deck

Founding crew — Peter Malcolm, Nick Kelly, Garry McKechnie, Natalie Davey, Tim Oddie

IFAW film crew aboard Pelican 1 — cetacean survey

Researchers deploying instruments — blue whale research on Pelican 1

IPMEN 2025 Takao Declaration signing, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Pelican 1 as floating concert stage — Sound Works at Festival of Sails

Sound Works at Cunningham Pier, Geelong

Port Jackson shark resting on sandy seabed — Port Phillip Bay

Weedy seadragon carrying eggs — southern Australian waters

Nudibranch on reef — Port Phillip Bay

Pufferfish in seagrass — Two Bays field site

Gannets at Pope's Eye

Open water from Pelican 1 deck

Elster Creek — Chain of Ponds project, Boon Wurrung Country

Port Phillip Bay wetlands — Ramsar site

Open ocean — the unexplored deep

Marine life — Port Phillip Bay

Pelican 1 archive — early voyages

IPMEN 2023 conference — Victoria, British Columbia