The Friends of Ecological reserves sponsored a field trip to Race Rocks On Sunday May 12. Chris Blondeau, Director of Operations for Lester Pearson College operated the boat and Garry Fletcher led a group of ten on a tour of the reserve. The following gallery of images shows some of the activities.
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- The group of 10 members who boarded the college’s “Second Nature” to travel to the reserve.
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- Elephant seal juvenile male and females lined up on the island
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- A young female elephant seal tagged Green # 6360
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- A clear distinction of the head shape with the female above, and male below. Both probably 2-3 year old juveniles.
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- Elephant seals lined up on the centre of Great Race Island
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- This female was tagged as a weaned pup in February 2012 at Point Reyes National Seashore.
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- Bertha, the older female who has had 4 offspring on the island. She has a distinctive stomach scar.
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- A good example of the highest marine algae in the intertidal zone, Praseola, sp. and the vertical zonation of the upper intertidal.
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- a visitor near tidepool #13 and the boulder moved by the hurricane in 2006
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- A goose nest with numbered addled eggs.
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- Enclosure to prevent grazing to monitor vegetation change.
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- Enclosure to prevent grazing.
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- The area flattened by the sealions last fall has a layer of Blue green algae on a mat of hair, On the edges, this camomile is growing invasively.
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- This california sea lion has remained decomposing near the East lawn for the last 4 years.
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- fenced enclosure to demonstrate the effect of goose grazing.
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- Californa and Northern Sea lions on Middle Rock
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The tagging of elephant seals indicating their origin: