Flooring for Science Centre

After a few weeks of waiting for the shipment to arrive, we were finally able to bring the new flooring for the Science Centre out to Race Rocks. In the process of loading the packages from the truck to the boat at the Pearson College maintenance dock one of the wheel barrels got out of hand and dumped some of the floor into the ocean. With the aid of an old dry suit, my friend Marc was able to retrieve them. We gave them a fresh water rinse and lay them out to dry.  Once at Race Rocks we used the crane to offload the flooring to the crane deck and then wheel-barrelled them to the science centre. It took two boat trips and most of the day to get all the flooring out, luckily the weather was calm and sunny.

Project Week

cleaningTowerThere have been 6 Pearson College students staying at Race Rocks this past week for Project Week.  They have been helping out with various projects on the island including scrubbing algae off of the siding of the buildings and painting baseboard trim for the guest house. On Friday Garry Fletcher visited the island to talk with students about history and biology.

During their stay there have been some stormy days with wind speeds gusting over 40 knots from the West.

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