Wind: Yesterday 5-10 knots W; Today 5-20 knots NE Sea State: up to 1 m chop Visibility: 10 NM Sky: overcast with rain this afternoon Temperature: 7 C Atmospheric CO2: 412.60 ppm (recorded by NOAA at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii) December 28 is the annual … Continue reading
On November 4th and 5th the Marine Mammal Rescue Team was here to help out a couple California sea lions that were entangled. They arrive on the 4th and after doing a thorough search around the island there were no … Continue reading
Weather: Visibility 15+ NE Sky overcast, cloudy Wind 15-25 kn N Water moderate waves, white caps. Visitors/Boats: Around 15 whale watching boats yesterday Corey, Guy, and a student with their visiting grandparents visited yesterday, and delivered water- the desalinator is … Continue reading
From The Goldstream Gazette BC LOCAL NEWS Sep. 22, 2019 12:00 a.m. PHOTOS: Steller sea lion with plastic around neck rescued on Vancouver Island Rescue staff determined the plastic band cut the protected animal’s neck approximately two inches A Steller … Continue reading
A team comprised of the DFO and Vancouver Aquariums Marine Mammal Rescue (MMR) came out to Race Rocks on September 16th to help the entangled sea lions we’ve spotted over the last few weeks. Leaving from Pedder Bay at 0900, they arrived in … Continue reading
Today we saw another entangled sea lion hauled out near the jetty. It appears to be wrapped in fishing line, which has embedded itself in the sea lions flesh over time causing infection/rotting. Seeing these … Continue reading
Weather Visibility: 15 miles Wind: 0-5 knots North in the morning. From 15:00 onwards, 15-20 knots West. Sky: clear Water: calm Ecological The same eight elephant seals on Great Race today. Most of them spent a couple of hours in the … Continue reading
This blog covers three days, September 15, 16 and 17th; Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It will be replaced by a point form log for the rest of the stay. Weather and Sea Conditions Thursday was part of the last high … Continue reading
Weather Fall to stay…I said that a few days ago so it may be an earlier indian Summer! The sea this end of week was flat like never before with no wind . An exception for Saturday which was beautiful with a gust … Continue reading
In this post we have put together many of our references to the impacts that humans have inflicted on our California and Steller or northern sea lion population which hauls out at Race Rocks. It includes images of fishing flashers … Continue reading