Whale Samana founder Naturalist:
Kim Beddall (1956-2025)
Kim Beddall (1956-2025), animal advocate and conservationist, born and raised in Pickering, Ontario, Canada, has been sharing her passion for marine mammals with whale watchers since 1983. Kim is the founder of commercial whale watching in Samana, now considered one of the top ten destinations in the world to observe threatened, North Atlantic Humpback whales.