History of Race Rocks.

The First Nations at Race Rocks: History and Prehistory	First Nations Burial Cairns at Race Rocks	History from Archives: 1890s to 1970s	The Lightkeepers of Race Rocks: 1860-1997
This file has a video and images of some of the demolition of historic structures which were on the island.	The History of the Lights at Race Rocks	History of the foghorn at Race Rocks	Francis G.Clements writes of his stay at the Race Rocks Port War Signal Station in 1939
Heritage Designation and Protection	Historic Artifacts of the Light Station	History of Communications from Race Rocks	The Lighthouse tower at Race Rocks (Imperial Light) .
See this file on the Lantern room of the Race Rocks tower	Historical markers & border monument.. Update with new Archival History	Bricks from the original engine room and buildings.	The original engine room and artifacts
Our file of the Shipwrecks of the Area	Archival Records on RR from the British Colonist	Archival Lighthouse reports	Trev and Flo Anderson: lighkeepers at Race Rocks and their early relationship with Pearson College
Contemporary History: Lightkeepers, 1975-1997	The Race Rocks Ecological Reserve History	Marine Protected Area Designation	History and background on Integrated Energy at Race Rocks.
History of development of the internet for racerocks.com	Archival record of Earthquake report at Race Rocks in 1872

How am I already on my third census of the trip? Time is going WAY too fast out here.

Today was very windy, and as a result (I think) animal numbers seem to be down. Except for the cormorants who reached an all time high for my counts.

Mammals:

Harbour seal: 40
California sea lion: 371
Steller sea lion: 448 (there really do seem to be a LOT more Steller sea lions here this year)
Sea otter: 1
Elephant seal: 1
Not seen today, but honourable mention to the one Northern fur seal here this week,

The sea otter and the fur seal were too far for any good photos so massive shout out to Tom from Eagle Wing for sending me these photos and allowing me to post them here. I will also mention that these photos were taken with a long lens and cropped, and the vessel respected all animal space/followed the law for approach distance.

Photo Credit: Tom F

Northern fur seal, Photo Credit: Tom F

Stellers are taking over!

These photos will also help us continue to ID the sea otter and see if it stays around. I have started calling him Oswald (Ozzie for short). I figured we should stick with O names around here and honour our good buddy Ollie who is no longer around but definitely made a name for himself out here at Race Rocks!

On to the bird count:

Gull: 435
Cormorant: 1,160 (every rock and island was just peppered with cormorants!)
Canada goose: 10
Bald eagle: 1
Sparrows: many, too fast too count
Turnstone: 34
Honourable mention for the red-footed booby who I last saw yesterday!

Red-footed booby taking off

Race Rocks Ecological Reserve-

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