Robin Baird and Pam Stacey in some of their early research on orcas installed a hydrophone at Race Rocks to record the vocalizations of Orcas as they came near the Islands. Here PC student Marcus Pistor helps lay out the hydrophone cable. This survived only until the winter storms.
Not quite sure of the exact date for this visit but thought I would put it on in hopes that someone can narrow it down .
Thor Heyerdahl was on the Board of the United World Colleges when he made a visit to Lester Pearson College. I remember two things he said on the way out to Race Rocks one was “why is it that whenever I visit somewhere someone tries to get me on a boat”
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As we approached North Rock on a heavy flood tide it appeared that the island was moving as we were going straight toward the lighthouse because we were being carried by the tide. He said that this was the reason that The Galapagos Islands were called Las Islas Encantadas by early sailors who were maneuvering in the Humboldt Current.
Thor Heyerdahl on Ubatuba with a Norwegian Pearson College student on the way to Race Rocks.